Edith Wharton

by Katherine Joslin

Book Overview

Edith Wharton considers the life of the early twentieth century American novelist and examines her fiction in opposition to both the male pastoral romance and the female domestic novel.

This stimulating reassessment of Edith Wharton by a leading authority on her work, will help to place Wharton's fiction against the nineteenth-century 'gendered' literary models. Like other American women writers, Wharton puts her protagonists within the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033340730X
• ISBN13: 9780333407301
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 164 Pages