Apart from modernism
Subtitle: Edith Wharton, politics, and fiction before World War I
By: Robin Peel.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Political and social views.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Schooling an intelligence": an ideological apprenticeship; title: Skirting modernism: novels, novellas, and short stories (1900-1909); title: Apart from modernism? Mr. Proust, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Wharton (1910); title: Ethan Frome, modernism and a political argument (1911); title: Vulgarity, bohemia, and the reef (1912); title: John Jay Chapman, "social order and restraints": the custom of the country (1913); title: Money, politics, and art: questions of commerce, imperialism, and gender; title: Politics and paradoxes: toryism, modernism and war.