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Apart from modernism; Edith Wharton, politics, and fiction before World War I.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Apart from modernism; Edith Wharton, politics, and fiction before World War I.

Peel, Robin.

Fairleigh Dickinson U.P.

2005

345 pages

$57.50

Hardcover

PS3545

Peel (English, U. of Plymouth) examines Wharton's journey toward early modernism and away from it, finding hers a conscious ethical decision to make such a change. Although Wharton's early life and work (including The Valley of Decision, The House of Mirth and The Fruit of the Tree) indicated the influences of French literature, bohemianism and her friend Henry James, her ...

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