LEADER 03708nam 22007212 450 001 9910457916403321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-16053-7 010 $a1-280-70303-2 010 $a0-511-23087-7 010 $a0-511-23164-4 010 $a0-511-22925-9 010 $a0-511-33157-6 010 $a0-511-48555-7 010 $a0-511-23009-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353249 035 $a(EBL)275201 035 $a(OCoLC)252529715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000143994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11911936 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10119801 035 $a(PQKB)11120783 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485558 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC275201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL275201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10150180 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL70303 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353249 100 $a20090226d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEdith Wharton and the politics of race /$fby Jennie A. Kassanoff$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v143 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-05103-7 311 $a0-521-83089-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-213) and index. 327 $tInvaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters --$t"The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth --$t"A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree --$tThe age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef --$tCharity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist --$gCoda :$tThe age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy. 330 $aEdith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme through Wharton's spirited participation in a variety of turn-of-the-century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans - to produce a truly interdisciplinary study of this major American writer. Kassanoff locates Wharton squarely in the middle of the debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on diverse cultural materials, she offers close interdisciplinary readings that will be of interest to scholars of American literature and culture. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v143. 517 3 $aEdith Wharton & the Politics of Race 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813/.52 700 $aKassanoff$b Jennie Ann$01051582 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457916403321 996 $aEdith Wharton and the politics of race$92482200 997 $aUNINA