Emily Coit

American Snobs (eBook, ePUB)

Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474475433
• Artikelnr.: 72430507

Autorenporträt

Emily Coit is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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 Remnant at Harvard and the The Talented Tenth
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 Last Calvinist and the Puritan Liberal
Purement Anglo-Saxonne: Puritans and Patroons
Colonial Mansions: Wharton and the Genteel Tradition
Conclusion: The Reign of the Genteel
Notes
Bibliography
Index.