American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition by Coit, Emily

American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474475402)

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American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition by Coit, Emily

American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

$120.00
American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition by Coit, Emily

American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Emily Coit
ISBN-10: 147447540X
ISBN-13: 9781474475402
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
By Emily Coit
By Emily Coit
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Emily Coit is Assistant Instructional Professor in English at the University of Chicago. She studies the history of thinking about education, citizenship, and democracy. Her work has appeared ELH, The Henry James Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and several edited collections. She is currently co-editing A Landscape Painter and Other Tales, a volume of short stories for the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James.

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