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Wharton the 'renovator': Twilight Sleep as Gothic satire.(Edith Wharton)(Critical essay)

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20070101
Author:Beer, Janet; Horner, Avril

ABSTRACT

The essay focuses on Edith Wharton's critically neglected novel Twilight Sleep as demonstrating the complexity of the social vision that is articulated in the mature fiction of the late 1gzos and early 1930s. In this hybrid text the generic boundaries between satire and the Gothic are dissolved as Wharton provides a cultural critique of social and aesthetic modernity that draws on contemporary thinking but also demonstrates her proficiency as a literary renovator. The novel is placed in both its European and American cultural contexts; its transatlantic Gothic ...

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