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American Snobs : Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition by Emily Coit; Colleen Glenney Boggs; Laura Doyle; Maria Cristina Fumagalli is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is American Snobs : Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition about?
Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century 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, this book 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 cr
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- Author
- Emily Coit; Colleen Glenney Boggs; Laura Doyle; Maria Cristina Fumagalli
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474475433
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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