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American Snobs : Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition
by Emily Coit
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Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, this book shows how each of these authors interrogated that liberalism's arguments for education, democracy and the political duties of the cultivated elite. Coit shows that the works of these authors contributed to a realist critique of a liberal New England idealism that fed into the narrative about 'the genteel tradition', which shaped the study of US literature during the twentieth century.
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- ISBN-13: 9781474475419
- ISBN-10: 1474475418
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: November 2022
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.02 pounds
- Page Count: 328
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