A Historical Guide to Edith WhartonCarol J. Singley Oxford University Press, 30 de jan. de 2003 - 312 páginas Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day. |
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Emerson Darwin and The Custom of the Country | 89 |
Wharton Travel and Modernity | 147 |
Wharton and Art | 181 |
Wharton and the Age of Film | 211 |
Contributors | 281 |
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Página 103 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 104 - I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
Página 103 - ... contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.
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Página 64 - To our grandmothers, Roman fever; to our mothers, sentimental dangers — how we used to be guarded! — to our daughters, no more dangers than the middle of Main Street. They don't know it — but how much they're missing!
Página 81 - Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write) , a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in, and those magical moments when the mere discovery that "the woodspurge has a cup of three" brings not despair but delight.