Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

by Carol J. Singley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052164612X
• ISBN13: 9780521646123
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"