White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism: AND CLASSIC AMERICAN REALISM

by PHILLIP BARRISH

The Ohio State University Press, 2005

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1010-9 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5145-4

Library of Congress Classification PS374.L42B37 2005

Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9358

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Liberal Time vs. Literary Time
Chapter 1.What Edith Wharton Teaches about the Defense of Affirmative Action
Chapter 2. Mark Twain and the Secret Joys of Antiracist Pedagogy 
Part Two. Gender, Liberalism, and Racial Geometry
Chapter 3. Awakened White Femininity and A Shaping Mexicanist Presence
Chapter 4. Trafficking in Liberal Masculinities
Part Three. American Innocence vs. Liberal Guilt
Chapter 5. "A Good Fellow Wronged": Christopher Newman and the Feeling of
American Exceptionalism
Chapter 6. Liberal Guilt and The Age of Innocence
Coda
Notes
Bibliography 
Index

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