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03505aam a2200481 i 4500 001 FE1E06885F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 201022t20212021stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 147447540X 020 $a 9781474475402 035 $a (OCoLC)1222798475 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d CDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d QGK $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma 050 4 $a PS374.L42 $b C65 2021 082 04 $a 813.009/3581 $2 23 100 1 $a Coit, Emily, $e author. 245 10 $a American snobs : $b transatlantic novelists, liberal culture and the genteel tradition / $c Emily Coit. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 318 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures 520 8 $a Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Brings together the insights of recent Victorianist and Americanist scholarship in order to show how Adams, James, and Wharton engage with liberal thinking about whiteness, democracy, and citizenship. Locates these authors in disciplinary history, revealing that their critical responses to Bostonian liberalism feed into the ideas that structure the study of US literary history during the twentieth century. Offers a rich portrait of the Harvard intellectual milieu to which these authors respond, bringing fresh attention to their connections with thinkers such as and W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles William Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton, and Barrett Wendell. 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index. 600 10 $a Adams, Henry, $d 1838-1918 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Wharton, Edith, $d 1862-1937 $x Political and social views. 600 17 $a Adams, Henry, $d 1838-1918. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00049713 600 17 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00028686 600 17 $a Wharton, Edith, $d 1862-1937. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00048127 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and cricitism. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z Boston $z Boston $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Liberalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997183 650 7 $a Political and social views. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 651 7 $a Massachusetts $z Boston. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205012 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013827.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FE1E06885F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search