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Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction

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From: Legacy
Date: 20021231
Author:Anonymous

By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 204 pp. $49.95.

A traditional bias that persists within scholarship on Edith Wharton's canon praises her as a realist, citing works from the first half of her career to support that categorization while dismissing many of her later works as regrettable "lapses" into sentimentality. Hildegard Hoeller's innovative study, Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction, addresses that persistent bias by considering evidence of the sentimental mode in her work, while simultaneously exploring how Wharton employs ...

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