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

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

Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures series

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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.

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