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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20040101
Author:Wegener, Frederick

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. Edited by Carol J. Singley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 322 pp. $45.00/$17.95 paper.

Over the past thirty years Edith Wharton's career has been so thoroughly resurrected and her work so extensively reissued that one need no longer speak merely of a "Wharton revival" in American literary culture. In a further sign of this enshrinement, Oxford University Press devotes the latest of its "Historical Guides to American Authors" to the novelist, whose multifaceted accomplishment is examined in half a dozen new essays flanked by a ...

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