Jennie A. Kassanoff

Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521051033
• ISBN-10: 0521051037
• Artikelnr.: 23364432

Autorenporträt

Jennie A. Kassanoff is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College in New York. Her articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly and PMLA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Invaders and Aborigines: playing Indian in the Land of Letters
2. 'The real Lily Bart': staging race in The House of Mirth
3. 'A close corporation': the body and the machine in The Fruit of the Tree
4. The Age of Experience: pragmatism, the Titanic and The Reef
5. Charity begins at home: Summer and the erotic tourist
6. Coda: The Age of Innocence and the Cesnola controversy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.