Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism

by Michael A. Elliott

Examines the prehistory of the American struggle to address cultural difference.

"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage was first articulated, tracing the concept of culture to the writings-folktales, dialect literature, local color sketches, and ethnographies-that provided its intellectual underpinnings in turn-of-the-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639728
• ISBN13: 9780816639724
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"