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Memorial boxes and guarded interiors; Edith Wharton and material culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Memorial boxes and guarded interiors; Edith Wharton and material culture.

Ed. by Gary Totten.

U. of Alabama Press

2007

315 pages

$65.00

Hardcover

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

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American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) once wrote in Harper's that she wanted to "penetrate...the carefully guarded interior[s]" of her past memories and fashion them "into a little memorial like the boxes formed of exotic shells which sailors used to fabricate between voyages." For Totten (English, North Dakota ...

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