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The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton.(Book Review)

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20040101
Author:Preston, Claire

The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton. By HELEN KILLORAN. (Studies in American Literature and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective) Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: Camden House. 2001. xv +184 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $55. ISBN: 1-57113-101-9.

Changing critical fashion and the outbreak of the war dealt a seeming death-blow to academic and popular interest in the works of Edith Wharton: her creative accomplishment slept as her literary reputation languished almost from the moment of her death in 1937 until the publication of R. W. B. Lewis's biography in 1975. During ...

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