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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2010
      July 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511549595
      9780521472357
      9780521646123
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549595
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 284 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (92)
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (92)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    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.

    Reviews

    ‘… Whartonians and Americanists will welcome this book.’

    Source: 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.’

    Source: Modern Fiction Studies

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