American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781474475402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 328 str.

Emily Coit

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Cultivation After Reconstruction: Impossible Educations; 1. Slavery, Subjection, and Culture in Adams's Democracy and Esther; The Virgin and the Favourite; Beasts and Things that Crawl; Struggle for Mastery: Pedagogies, Marriage Plots; 2. The Education of the People in James's The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima; The People and the Freedmen; The Schoolmarm and the Southerner; The Happier Few and the Miserable Many; 3. The Professor and the Mob in Wharton's The Valley of Decision; Born Readers: Race and the Reading Citizenry; Idealism and Realism; The Learned Lady; Part II: The Remnant at Harvard: Whiteness, Higher Education, and Democracy; 4. Universal White: Discrimination and Selection in James's American Scene; Numbers and the Remnant; Diversity, Distinction, and the Note of the Exclusive; Serene Puritan Crânerie: James and the Genteel Tradition; 5. The Tenth Mind: Adams and the Action of the Remnant; Better Men: The Remnant at Harvard and the The Talented Tenth; Bostonian Calm and the Action of the Scholar; Education and Power: Schools, Schoolmasters, Truants; The Type of Passivity: Adams and the Genteel Tradition; 6. Pure English: Wharton and the Elect; Aristocracies: The Value of Duration; Doctrines of Election: The Last Calvinist and the Puritan Liberal; Purement Anglo-Saxonne: Puritans and Patroons; Colonial Mansions: Wharton and the Genteel Tradition; Conclusion: The Reign of the Genteel; Notes; Bibliography; Index.