Blake Nevius’s close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton’s novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have a permanent claim on our attention. Wharton is the only American novelist who has dealt successfully and at length with the remains of traditional New York society, which barely survived the beginning of the twentieth century. She illuminated, as no other novelist of her generation was able to do, a major aspect of U.S. social history through the dramatic conflict between the ideals of the old mercantile and the new industrial societies. Nevius also argues that Wharton, next to Henry James, is our most successful novelist of manners and, along with him, helped preserve the artistic dignity of the novel This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Tabella dei contenuti
I. EDITH WHARTON TODAY
II. RECONNOITERINGS
III. THE VALLEY OF DECISION
IV. TOWARD THE NOVEL OF MANNERS
V. THE REPUBLIC OF THE SPIRIT
VI. THE TRAPPED SENSIBILITY
VII. THE REMOTER IMAGINATIVE ISSUES
VIII. THE WIDENING GYRE
IX. THE RICH LOW MURMUR OF THE PAST
X. THE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
XI. THE NEW AGE OF INNOCENCE
XII. A QUESTION OF LIMITS
NOTES
THE WRITINGS OF EDITH WHARTON
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Circa l’autore
Blake Nevius was Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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