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Apart from Modernism
Robin Peel
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Description for Apart from Modernism
Hardback. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment. Other elements in her circumstances made her resistant to change. She enjoyed enormous success with The House of Mirth, and the public clearly demanded more from her in this style. That novel's naturalism and didactic purpose, Peel argues, conformed to her own belief in the moral purpose of literature, and ultimately Wharton's reading of politics, culture, and society ... Read more
Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment. Other elements in her circumstances made her resistant to change. She enjoyed enormous success with The House of Mirth, and the public clearly demanded more from her in this style. That novel's naturalism and didactic purpose, Peel argues, conformed to her own belief in the moral purpose of literature, and ultimately Wharton's reading of politics, culture, and society ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
Number of Pages
345
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473162
SKU
V9781611473162
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99-15
About Robin Peel
Robin Peel is principal lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
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