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Auteur(s) : Coit, Emily
Titre(s) : American snobs [Texte imprimé] : transatlantic novelists, liberal culture and the genteel tradition / Emily Coit
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-318 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures
Lien à la collection : Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index
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Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Brings
together the insights of recent Victorianist and Americanist scholarship in order
to show how Adams, James, and Wharton engage with liberal thinking about whiteness,
democracy, and citizenship. Locates these authors in disciplinary history, revealing
that their critical responses to Bostonian liberalism feed into the ideas that structure
the study of US literary history during the twentieth century. Offers a rich portrait
of the Harvard intellectual milieu to which these authors respond, bringing fresh
attention to their connections with thinkers such as and W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles William
Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton, and Barrett Wendell. 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 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
Sujet(s) : Adams, Henry (1838-1918) -- Pensée politique et sociale
James, Henry (1843-1916) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Libéralisme -- Massachusetts (États-Unis) -- Boston (Mass., États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Snobisme -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.009 352 (23e éd.) = Roman américain de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Thème des catégories
particulières de personnes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781474475426. - ISBN 1474475426. - ISBN 9781474475433. - ISBN 1474475434. -
ISBN 9781474475402 (erroné). - ISBN 147447540X (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46780790w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46780790
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Table des matières : Intro ; Acknowledgements ; Series Editors' Preface ; Introduction ; Part I: Cultivation
After Reconstruction: Impossible Educations ; 1. Slavery, Subjection and Culture
in Adams's Democracy and Esther ; The Virgin and the Favourite ; Beasts and Things
that Crawl ; Struggle for Mastery: Pedagogies, Marriage Plots ; 2. The Education
of the People in James's The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima ; The People
and the Freedmen ; The Schoolmarm and the Southerner ; The Happier Few and the Miserable
Many ; 3. The Professor and the Mob in Wharton's The Valley of Decision
Born Readers: Race and the Reading Citizenry ; Idealism and Realism ; The Learned
Lady ; Part II: The Remnant at Harvard: Whiteness, Higher Education and Democracy
; 4. Universal White: Discrimination and Selection in James's American Scene ; Numbers
and the Remnant ; Diversity, Distinction and the Note of the Exclusive ; Serene
Puritan Crânerie: James and the Genteel Tradition ; 5. The Tenth Mind: Adams and
the Action of the Remnant ; Better Men: The Talented Tenth and the Remnant at Harvard
; Bostonian Calm and the Action of the Scholar
Education and Power: Schools, Schoolmasters, Truants ; The Type of Passivity: Adams
and the Genteel Tradition ; 6. Pure English: Wharton and the Elect ; Aristocracies:
The Value of Duration ; Doctrines of Election: The Puritan Liberal and the Last Calvinist
; Purement Anglo-Saxonne: Puritans and Patroons ; Colonial Mansions: Wharton and
the Genteel Tradition ; Conclusion: The Reign of the Genteel ; Notes ; Bibliography
; Index
