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Informationen zum Autor Emily Coit is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. She studies the history of thinking about education, citizenship, and democracy. Her work has appeared ELH, The Henry James Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature , and several edited collections. She is currently co-editing A Landscape Painter and Other Tales , a volume of short stories for the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Klappentext Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, this book shows how each of these authors interrogated that liberalism's arguments for education, democracy and the political duties of the cultivated elite. Coit shows that the works of these authors contributed to a realist critique of a liberal New England idealism that fed into the narrative about 'the genteel tradition', which shaped the study of US literature during the twentieth century. Emily Coit is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Zusammenfassung Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
