The Critical Reception of Edith WhartonBoydell & Brewer, 2001 - 184 páginas Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, the criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals. The reasons reside in critics' loyalties to various theoretical approaches, the objectivity of which are often compromised by political hopes. This volume not only traces and analyzes the development of Whartonian literary criticism in its historical and political contexts, but also allows Edith Wharton, herself a literary critic, to respond to various concepts through the author's deductions and extrapolations from Wharton's own words. |
Contenido
The House of MirthFrom Morality to Taxidermy | 25 |
Ethan FromeThe Murder of a Masterpiece | 49 |
The Custom of the CountryMonstrous Undine | 64 |
Summer The Law of the Father | 77 |
The Age of InnocenceA Buried Life | 93 |
GhostsIn Broad Daylight | 108 |
ReviewFurther Sources | 126 |
Bibliography | 143 |
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