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"Lita is--jazz": the Harlem renaissance, cabaret culture, and racial amalgamation in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep.(Edith Wharton's "Twilight Sleep")

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20060322
Author:Griffith, Jean C.

Edith Wharton's 1927 novel Twilight Sleep has consistently suffered from a lack of critical scrutiny because, perhaps, when it is paired with better-known novels like The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, or The Custom of the Country, it appears rather anomalous-Madam Wharton, novelist of elite drawing rooms from New York to Paris, does the Jazz Age. Although Twilight Sleep is unique in Wharton's repertoire, particularly stylistically, it nonetheless deals with a set of concerns similar to her best-known works. Specifically, the novel examines the aftereffects of the invasion ...

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