American snobs : transatlantic novelists, liberal culture and the genteel tradition /

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Brings together the insights of recent Victorianist and Americanist scholarship in order to show how Adams, James, and Wharton engage with liberal thinking about whiteness, democracy, and citizenship. Locates these auth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coit, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
Temas:
Adams, Henry, > 1838-1918 > Political and social views.
James, Henry, > 1843-1916 > Political and social views.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Political and social views.
Adams, Henry, > 1838-1918
James, Henry, > 1843-1916
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937
1800-1999
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Liberalism > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Libéralisme > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Liberalism
Political and social views
Massachusetts > Boston
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Cultivation After Reconstruction: Impossible Educations
  • 1. Slavery, Subjection and Culture in Adams's Democracy and Esther
  • The Virgin and the Favourite
  • Beasts and Things that Crawl
  • Struggle for Mastery: Pedagogies, Marriage Plots
  • 2. The Education of the People in James's The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima
  • The People and the Freedmen
  • The Schoolmarm and the Southerner
  • The Happier Few and the Miserable Many
  • 3. The Professor and the Mob in Wharton's The Valley of Decision
  • Born Readers: Race and the Reading Citizenry
  • Idealism and Realism
  • The Learned Lady
  • Part II: The Remnant at Harvard: Whiteness, Higher Education and Democracy
  • 4. Universal White: Discrimination and Selection in James's American Scene
  • Numbers and the Remnant
  • Diversity, Distinction and the Note of the Exclusive
  • Serene Puritan Crânerie: James and the Genteel Tradition
  • 5. The Tenth Mind: Adams and the Action of the Remnant
  • Better Men: The Talented Tenth and the Remnant at Harvard
  • Bostonian Calm and the Action of the Scholar
  • Education and Power: Schools, Schoolmasters, Truants
  • The Type of Passivity: Adams and the Genteel Tradition
  • 6. Pure English: Wharton and the Elect
  • Aristocracies: The Value of Duration
  • Doctrines of Election: The Puritan Liberal and the Last Calvinist
  • Purement Anglo-Saxonne: Puritans and Patroons
  • Colonial Mansions: Wharton and the Genteel Tradition
  • Conclusion: The Reign of the Genteel
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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