num_pages: 240
description: Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm a native American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and all of Wharton's novels, Jennie A. Kassanoff argues that a more accurate picture of her appreciation of American culture and democracy develops through less engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme by documenting Wharton's spirited participation in turn-of-the-century discourses ranging from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans.
language: English
title: Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
titlecomplete: Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 143)
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 7
series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press