03708nam 22007212 450 991045791640332120151005020621.01-107-16053-71-280-70303-20-511-23087-70-511-23164-40-511-22925-90-511-33157-60-511-48555-70-511-23009-5(CKB)1000000000353249(EBL)275201(OCoLC)252529715(SSID)ssj0000143994(PQKBManifestationID)11911936(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143994(PQKBWorkID)10119801(PQKB)11120783(UkCbUP)CR9780511485558(MiAaPQ)EBC275201(Au-PeEL)EBL275201(CaPaEBR)ebr10150180(CaONFJC)MIL70303(EXLCZ)99100000000035324920090226d2004|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEdith Wharton and the politics of race /by Jennie A. Kassanoff[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004.1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;143Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-05103-7 0-521-83089-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index.Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters --"The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth --"A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree --The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef --Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist --Coda :The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy.Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme through Wharton's spirited participation in a variety of turn-of-the-century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans - to produce a truly interdisciplinary study of this major American writer. Kassanoff locates Wharton squarely in the middle of the debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on diverse cultural materials, she offers close interdisciplinary readings that will be of interest to scholars of American literature and culture.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;143.Edith Wharton & the Politics of RacePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRace relations in literatureImmigrants in literatureRace in literaturePolitics and literatureHistoryRace relations in literature.Immigrants in literature.Race in literature.813/.52Kassanoff Jennie Ann1051582UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457916403321Edith Wharton and the politics of race2482200UNINA