01306nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_160219 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 84 813.52 K19 Kassanoff, Jennie Ann Edith Wharton and the politics of race Jennie A. Kassanoff Cambridge, U.K.,New York Cambridge Univesity Press 2004 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 Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennifer Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her appreciation of American culture and democracy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 Politics and literature,Race relations in literature,Immigrants in literature,Race in literature,Văn học Mỹ History 20th century United States Nguyên Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ