EDWIN ABBOTT'S FLATLAND AND VICTORIAN ANTHROPOLOGY.
Although early reviewers of Edwin Abbott's Flatland recognized the novel as a fictional travelogue, the travelogue aspect of the novel remains underexamined. This essay examines Flatland as a travelogue and as a work of ethnographic criticism in relation to the emergence of Victorian anthropology as...
| Publicado en: | Journeys Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 44 - 67 |
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Berghahn Books
Dec2018
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