The critical reception of Edith Wharton
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The critical reception of Edith Wharton
（Studies in American literature and culture, . Literary criticism in perspective）
Camden House, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-168) and index
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内容説明
Once considered the 'last Victorian,' Edith Wharton and her fiction were at first greeted with the gentility proper to a lady of New York's social elite. Gradually, however, critics became gadflies incessantly buzzing at a Sphinxwho seemed never to comment on her own work. At times, though, her impulses took control and she made remarks in letters and elsewhere that, on the one hand, appear to illuminate the fiction, but on the other, often raise more problems than they solve. Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals.obfuscates more than itreveals. 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. ProfessorKilloran's book provides a fresh reading of the best criticism on Wharton and in so doing throws new light on Wharton's works themselves.
HELEN KILLORAN is associate professor of English at the University of Ohio, Lancaster.She is past President of the Edith Wharton Society, and author of a number of articles on Wharton and Henry James, as well as a book, Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion (1996).
目次
Preview
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome - The Murder of a Masterpiece
The Custom of the Country - Monstrous Undine
Summer - The Law of the Father
The Age of Innocence - A Buried Life
Ghosts - In Broad Daylight
Review
Works by Edith Wharton
Works Cited
Index
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