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Edith Wharton's Social Register
Claire Preston
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Description for Edith Wharton's Social Register
Hardback. Num Pages: 8 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her world in binary terms of belonging and exile, of spatial boundaries and exclusions, and tribal behaviour. She applied that intellectual framework to the struggle to preserve the Old World from the territorial and cultural threat of the Great War. In linked thematic sections, Claire Preston considers ideas of tribal inclusion and banishment, buccaneer figures whose money-energy overcomes tribal demarcations, and expatriatism, the self-imposed mode of exile which fed Wharton's apparently chilly empiricism and ... Read more
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her world in binary terms of belonging and exile, of spatial boundaries and exclusions, and tribal behaviour. She applied that intellectual framework to the struggle to preserve the Old World from the territorial and cultural threat of the Great War. In linked thematic sections, Claire Preston considers ideas of tribal inclusion and banishment, buccaneer figures whose money-energy overcomes tribal demarcations, and expatriatism, the self-imposed mode of exile which fed Wharton's apparently chilly empiricism and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
8
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312225575
SKU
V9780312225575
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Ref
99-15
About Claire Preston
CLAIRE PRESTON is Fellow and Lecturer in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Edith Wharton's Social Register
'Claire Preston's appropriately elegant Edith Wharton's Social Register studies the modes by which Wharton registers her perennial interest in the politics of inclusion and exclusion...Preston's alert, appreciative readings maintain Wharton's most intrinsic aesthetic: the art of the fine distinction.' - Sarah Churchwell, Times Literary Supplement