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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