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Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics.

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From: MELUS
Date: 19980622
Author:Lynch, Jacquelyn Scott

Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics. Dale M. Bauer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. 225 pages. $55.00 cloth; $17.50 paper.

Like her friend Henry James, Edith Wharton left a vast and complex oeuvre that continues to challenge her readers while lending itself to a diverse variety of critical approaches. Until recently, Wharton's work was most often read through the formalist or feminist lenses traditionally favored by James scholars, which led to its classification into two major stages, with the latter fiction dismissed as inferior and/or reactionary. Sighting the ...

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