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An edition of Edith Wharton (1995)

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit considers Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than manners, a novelist who in the exercise of writing sought answers to profound spiritual and metaphysical questions. Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in light of Wharton's religious and philosophical development and her attitudes toward Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism.

Singley situates Wharton in the context of turn-of-the-century science, historicism, and aestheticism, reading her religious and philosophical outlook as an evolving response to the cultural crisis of belief. She further invokes the dynamics of class and gender as central to Wharton's quest, describing the ways in which the author accepted and yet transformed both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherited.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
261

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Subjects
Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Wharton, edith, 1862-1937
People
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Places
United States
Times
20th century

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Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
July 28, 1998, Cambridge University Press
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1995, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and index.

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Cambridge [England], New York
Series
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;, 92

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.H16 Z878 1995

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Pagination
xiii, 261 p. ;
Number of pages
261

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OL1119917M
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edithwhartonmatt0000sing
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0521472350
LCCN
94046344
OCLC/WorldCat
31707455
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140413
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4000202

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DISCOVERIES in science, which played key roles in the late Victorian struggle with faith, are crucial to understanding Edith Wharton's religious choices.
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