Wendy Bellion. Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 388 pp.; 12 color and 83 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.
Theories from the High Desert Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Stewards Life and Theory.By Virginia Kerns. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 414 pp.
Ethnography in Fiction Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth‐Century British Novels. By James Buzard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 320 pp. Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865–1920. By Brad Evans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 244 pp.
