Edith Wharton and the politics of race /

Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm an American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democ...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Kassanoff, Jennie Ann.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Ã2004
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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