In:
The New England Quarterly, MIT Press, Vol. 81, No. 1 ( 2008-03), p. 5-33
Abstract:
Blanketed in whiteness—bleak, frozen, snowed in—the widely read and taught Ethan Frome has a little-recognized racist subtext. Expressing early-twentieth-century nativist anxieties about immigrants of color, Wharton warns that old, white, Yankee New England is disappearing, its farms withering, as swarthy foreigners increasingly dominate the newly industrialized landscape.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0028-4866
,
1937-2213
DOI:
10.1162/tneq.2008.81.1.5
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication Date:
2008
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2066808-9
SSG:
7,26
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