American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

by Emily Coit

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474475418
• ISBN13: 9781474475419
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"