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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20020601
Author:Singley, Carol

Edith Wharton's Social Register. By Claire Preston. London: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 225 pp. $65.00.

In a fine study, Edith Wharton'is Social Register, Claire Preston situates Edith Wharton's writing within the cultural and literary contexts of modernism. In this respect, her book expands points raised by Shari Benstock in her 1994 biography, Edith Wharton: No Gifts from Chance, and enters into critical dialogue with recent studies of Wharton and culture, such as those by Nancy Bentley, Barbara Hochman, and Phillip Barrish, who investigate ...

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