Sexist Jonathan Franzen Bashes Edith Wharton
Category: WOMEN
Planning to teach Wharton soon, I took another look at Franzen's New Yorker hatchet job on Edith Wharton, and it was worse than I remembered. The critics' darling praises her classics The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence but grossly misreads her character and her life.
By Lev Raphael, ContributorAuthor, reviewer, and blogger, 2015-05-24