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Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit - Couverture rigide

Singley, Carol J.

 
9780521472357: Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521472350 ISBN 13 : 9780521472357
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit, first published in 1995, makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to profound spiritual and metaphysical questions. Focusing on Wharton's treatment of Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism, Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in the light of religious and philosophical developments in Wharton's life and fiction. Singley situates Wharton in the context of turn-of-the-century science, historicism, and aestheticism, reading her religious and philosophical outlook as an evolving response to the cultural crisis of belief. She invokes the dynamics of class and gender as central to Wharton's quest, describing how the author accepted and yet transformed both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherited. By locating Wharton in the library rather than the drawing room, Matters of Mind and Spirit gives this writer her literary and intellectual due, and offers fresh ways of interpreting her life and fiction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit, first published in 1995, makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to profound spiritual and metaphysical questions. Focusing on Wharton's treatment of Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism, Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in the light of religious and philosophical developments in Wharton's life and fiction. Singley situates Wharton in the context of turn-of-the-century science, historicism, and aestheticism, reading her religious and philosophical outlook as an evolving response to the cultural crisis of belief. She invokes the dynamics of class and gender as central to Wharton's quest, describing how the author accepted and yet transformed both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherited. By locating Wharton in the library rather than the drawing room, Matters of Mind and Spirit gives this writer her literary and intellectual due, and offers fresh ways of interpreting her life and fiction.

Revue de presse

'... Whartonians and Americanists will welcome this book.' American Literature

'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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521472350
ISBN 13 
9780521472357
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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