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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Kassanoff, Jennie A.

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 143

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521830893
ISBN13: 9780521830898
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 16 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', 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 Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennie A. Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her appreciation of American culture and democracy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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