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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