White liberal identity, literary pedagogy, and classic American realism
By: Phillip Barrish.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: American fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism.; Liberalism in literature.; Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Ethnic relations in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Realism in literature.; Race in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What Edith Wharton teaches about the defense of affirmative action; title: Mark Twain and the secret joys of antiracist pedagogy; title: Gender, liberalism, and racial geometry; title: Awakened White femininity and a shaping Mexicanist presence; title: Trafficking in liberal masculinities; title: American innocence vs. liberal guilt; title: "A good fellow wronged" : Christopher Newman and the feeling of American exceptionalism; title: Liberal guilt and the age of innocence.