Edith Wharton and the politics of race / by Jennie A. Kassanoff.
"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 Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material, and Wharton's major novels, Jennie A. Kassanoff argues...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
143. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.