Ne Essays on The Education of Henry Adams [Paperback]

This volume provides critical essays for undergraduates on The Education of Henry Adams.Examining this novel in terms of early twentieth-century American attitudes toward education, gender, U.S. foreign policy, and historiography, these essays add considerably to our understanding of the work as an expression of its time and continuing importance as literature and history.Examining this novel in terms of early twentieth-century American attitudes toward education, gender, U.S. foreign policy, and historiography, these essays add considerably to our understanding of the work as an expression of its time and continuing importance as literature and history.This volume addresses the established reputation of the Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and a canonical work of American literature. Examining the Education in terms of early twentieth-century American attitudes toward education, gender, U.S. foreign policy, and historiography, these essays add considerably to our understanding of the Education as an expression of its time. This is a remarkably coherent volume that explains in original ways the continuing importance of the Education of Henry Adams as literature and history.1. Introduction John Carlos Rowe; 2. The education of an American classic: the survival of failure Brook Thomas; 3. Being a Begonia in a man's world Martha Banta; 4. Henry Adams's Education in the age of Imperialism John Carlos Rowe; 5. The Education and the salvation of history Howard Horwitz.