Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

ISBN-13: 9780521472357 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 284 str.

New Jersey) Carol J. Singley (Rutgers University

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'The strength of Singley's vision lies in its final refusal to categorize Wharton's thought … Matters of Mind and Spirit marks a new trend in Wharton criticism.' Modern Fiction Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Priestess; 2. Spiritual homelessness; 3. Calvinist 'moral tortures'; 4. Fragile freedoms; 5. Platonic idealism; 6. Catholicism: fulfillment or concession; Works cited; Notes.