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 Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennifer Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her...
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Cambridge, U.K.,New York
Cambridge Univesity Press
2004
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ |
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| Izvleček: | 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 Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennifer Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her appreciation of American culture and democracy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 |
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