New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams

ISBN-13: 9780521445511 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 178 str.

Irvine) John Carlos Rowe (University of California

Opis

This volume addresses the established reputation of the Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and a canonical work of American literature. Examining the Education in terms of early twentieth-century American attitudes toward education, gender, U.S. foreign policy, and historiography, these essays add considerably to our understanding of the Education as an expression of its time. This is a remarkably coherent volume that explains in original ways the continuing importance of the Education of Henry Adams as literature and history.

Spis treści

1. Introduction John Carlos Rowe; 2. The education of an American classic: the survival of failure Brook Thomas; 3. Being a Begonia in a man's world Martha Banta; 4. Henry Adams's Education in the age of Imperialism John Carlos Rowe; 5. The Education and the salvation of history Howard Horwitz.