Edith Wharton and the politics of race

Edith Wharton feared that the "ill-bred"(the foreign and poor) would overwhelm a native American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennifer Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her...

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Huvudupphovsman: Kassanoff, Jennie Ann
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Publicerad: Cambridge, U.K.,New York Cambridge Univesity Press 2004
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Sammanfattning:Edith Wharton feared that the "ill-bred"(the foreign and poor) would overwhelm a native American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennifer Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her appreciation of American culture and democracy develops through less engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme by documenting Wharton's spirited participation in turn-of-the-century discourses ranging from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans