Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521472357)

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.

Author: Carol J. Singley
ISBN-10: 0521472350
ISBN-13: 9780521472357
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/1995
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.24w x 0.97d