Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction Before World War I

by Robin Peel

Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment. Other elements in her circumstances made her resistant to change. She enjoyed enormous success with The House of Mirth, and the public clearly demanded more from her in this style. That novel's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473160
• ISBN13: 9781611473162
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 345 Pages