Edith Wharton and the politics of race /

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Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm an American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kassanoff, Jennie Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
©2004
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Temas:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Political and social views.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
1900-1999
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Race relations in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Race in literature.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Political and social views.
Politics and literature.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters
  • "The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth
  • "A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree
  • The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef
  • Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist
  • Coda : The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy.

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