Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Author: Jennie A. Kassanoff, Barnard College, New York
- Date Published: September 2004
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521830898
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Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme through Wharton's spirited participation in a variety of turn-of-the-century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans - to produce a truly interdisciplinary study of this major American writer. Kassanoff locates Wharton squarely in the middle of the debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on diverse cultural materials, she offers close interdisciplinary readings that will be of interest to scholars of American literature and culture.
Read more- Sheds new light on Wharton's major novels, highlights their relation to political conservatism and race
- Provides key thoughts on race at the turn of the twentieth century
- Draws on a wide array of non-literary, historical sources and documents
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- Date Published: September 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521830898
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 163 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.505kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Invaders and Aborigines: playing Indian in the Land of Letters
2. 'The real Lily Bart': staging race in The House of Mirth
3. 'A close corporation': the body and the machine in The Fruit of the Tree
4. The Age of Experience: pragmatism, the Titanic and The Reef
5. Charity begins at home: Summer and the erotic tourist
6. Coda: The Age of Innocence and the Cesnola controversy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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