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Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings.(Review)

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From: Style
Date: 19980322
Author:Schriber, Mary Suzanne

Frederick Wegener, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvii + 331 pp. $29.95 cloth.

This thoroughly researched, annotated, and illuminating collection brings together for the first time the miscellaneous, little-known, uncollected, and heretofore dispersed critical writings of Edith Wharton. As editor Frederick Wegener observes, Wharton studies have been characterized by psychologically- and biographically-oriented scholarship, from the landmark biography of R. W. B. Lewis in 1975 to Shari Benstock's No Gifts From Chance in 1994; from Cynthia Griffin Wolff's A ...

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