description: This book examines a relatively small group of stories that represent the span of Wharton's literary career and the 'crucial instances' of Wharton's complex irony. Wharton's use of irony is directly related to her choice of three types of third person the observer narrator, the spectator narrator, and the suppressed narrator, who each convey different levels of ironic effect.
language: English
title: Irony in the Short Stories of Edith Wharton
titlecomplete: Irony in the Short Stories of Edith Wharton (Studies in American Literature)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr