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Carol J. Singley |
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Social Science |
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Boston Book Review: "...focuses on her religious and philosophical development, and its impact on her fiction..Singley's interpretation of Wharton's intellectual development is demonstrably well researched and argued, and her reading of some of the short fiction useful and enlightening...At times her interpretations seem forced, as though a few random images or allusions are being transformed into a full-scale thematic paradigm...Repeatedly we find Singley formulating her arguments out of the most tenuous threads of evidence...[Still]. Singley capably demonstrates Wharton's relationship to many of the prevailing intellectual and religious currents of her day." |
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Format: Hardcover, 261
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (August 01, 1995)
Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.15 lbs.
ISBN: 9780521472357 |
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Edith Wharton emerges in this book as a novelist of morals (rather than manners). Behind her polished portraits of upper-class New York life is a thoughtful, questioning spirit. This book analyzes Wharton's religion and philosophy in her short stories and seven major novels. It considers Wharton in terms of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American intellectual and religious life. It also analyzes Wharton in terms of her gender and class, explaining how this aristocratic woman applied and yet transformed both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherited. |
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