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Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20020601
Author:Rich, Charlotte
Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 204 pp. $49.95.
A traditional bias that persists within scholarship on Edith Wharton's canon praises her as a realist, citing works from the first half of her career to support that categorization while dismissing many of her later works as regrettable "lapses" into sentimentality. Hildegard Hoeller's innovative study, Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction, addresses that persistent bias by considering evidence of the ...
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