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 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 applies and yet transforms both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherits.
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"Bringing impressive scholarship to bear, Singley traces the influence, fermentation, and transformation of various philosophical ideas and discourses in Wharton's texts....Without denying the isolation and alienation of Wharton by class and gender insightfully identified by other scholars, Singley returns Wharton to her intellectual and literary origins at home as well as abroad. Whartonians and Americanists will welcome this book." Mary Suzanne Schriber, American Literature
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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 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 applies and yet transforms both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherits.
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
original ellipsis, gods arrive, moral tortures, original ellipses, original emphases, original emphasis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ethan Frome, New York, Edith Wharton, New England, The Age of Innocence, The Reef, Song of Songs, Backward Glance, Sophy Viner, The Gods Arrive, Ellen Olenska, Hudson River Bracketed, Lily Bart, Old Testament, Mlle Michelet, Morton Fullerton, The Scarlet Letter, Newland Archer, North Dormer, Henry James, World War, Anna Leath, Lawrence Selden, Lucretia Jones, Madame de Chantelle New!
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
original ellipsis, gods arrive, moral tortures, original ellipses, original emphases, original emphasis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ethan Frome, New York, Edith Wharton, New England, The Age of Innocence, The Reef, Song of Songs, Backward Glance, Sophy Viner, The Gods Arrive, Ellen Olenska, Hudson River Bracketed, Lily Bart, Old Testament, Mlle Michelet, Morton Fullerton, The Scarlet Letter, Newland Archer, North Dormer, Henry James, World War, Anna Leath, Lawrence Selden, Lucretia Jones, Madame de Chantelle New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Age of Innocence (Dodo Press) by Edith Wharton on 35 pages
- The Age Of Innocence (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom on 35 pages
- The Gods Arrive by Edith Wharton on 22 pages
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton on 8 pages
- The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
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- A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (Historical Guides to American Authors) by Carol J. Singley on page 110, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Kimberly Freeman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) by William M. Morgan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Aldon Lynn Nielsen in Back Matter
- The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jill M. Kress in Back Matter
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