New essays on the education of Henry Adams /

New essays on the education of Henry Adams /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The American novel American novel.
Subject:	Adams, Henry, -- 1838-1918. -- Education of Henry Adams. Adams, Henry, -- 1838-1918. Adams, Henry, -- 1838-1918. Education of Henry Adams (Adams, Henry) Historians -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism. Historians -- Biography. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473851

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Other authors / contributors:	Rowe, John Carlos.
ISBN:	9780521445733 0521445736 9780511624520 0511624522 9780521445511 0521445515 0521445736
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This volume in The American Novel series addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and canonical work of American literature. Examining The Education in terms of early twentieth-century American attitudes to education, gender, US foreign policy, and historiography, these essays add considerably to our understanding of the Education as an expression of its time. The approaches of the four contributors - John Carlos Rowe, Brook Thomas, Martha Banta, and Howard Horwitz - complement each other, even though the specific topic explored by each scholar is distinctly different from the others. The result is a remarkably coherent volume that explains in original ways the continuing importance of The Education of Henry Adams as literature and history.
Other form:	Print version: New essays on the education of Henry Adams. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The education of an American classic: the survival of failure
3. Being a Begonia in a man's world
4. Henry Adams's Education in the age of Imperialism
5. The Education and the salvation of history