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American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures) by Emily Coit is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, American Snobs shows how each of these authors interrogated that liberalism's arguments for education, democracy and the political duties of the cultivated elite. Coit shows that the works of these authors contributed to a realist critique of a liberal New England idealism that fed into the narrative about 'the genteel tradition', which shaped the study of US literature during the twentieth century.

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Author

Emily Coit

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474475402

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction