American Snobs

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American Snobs is written by Emily Coit and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474475434 (ISBN 10) and 9781474475433 (ISBN 13).

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 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.