Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Revised)

Carol J Singley

ISBN 10: 052164612X / ISBN 13: 9780521646123

Edité par Cambridge University Press July 1998, 1998

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• Titre: Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Revised)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press July 1998
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 052164612X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521646123
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • 61-BIOGRAPHY

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Synopsis

A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

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.