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Marriage and modernism in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep.(Critical Essay)

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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20020601
Author:Haytock, Jennifer

In recent years, the critical understanding of literary modernism has undergone much revision. We no longer perceive modernism simply as a reaction to the devastation of the First World War and the constraining morality of the nineteenth century but, also, as a response to changing economics and gender relationships. This expanded definition of modernism allows us to look for and acknowledge other factors that influenced modernist writers. Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep (1927) suggests that the increasing rate of divorce and a more tolerant attitude to it add to the pervasive ...

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