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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
...John Sampson Abstract “Untimely Love” reassesses the aesthetic choices and political implications of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1920), first by highlighting a surprising overlap between Wharton and the anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman. Wharton's novelistic critique of New York society's...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 308–321.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Paul Stasi Abstract This article takes up The Golden Bowl in relation to neoliberalism, considered less as a distinct phase of capitalist accumulation than as an intensification of its long-standing internal tendencies. Taking place, as Edith Wharton put it, “in the void,” James's novel stages...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
... by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Adams , Henry . The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography . New York: Random, 1996 . Bentley , Nancy . “Wharton and the Science of Manners.” The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton . Ed. Millicent Bell. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995 . 47 -67...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2022
...John Sampson Sheila Liming , What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books ( Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2020 ), pp. 280 , cloth, $108.00 . john.sampson@westpoint.edu The title is also purposefully misleading. What a Library Means...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... 112 ). Within the novel of manners, small talk often appears as subdued background noise for narrative reflections on social power. Henry James and Edith Wharton, whose novels of manners exerted well-noted influences on Larsen, present small talk as a language of mastery that often facilitates female...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 466–469.
Published: 01 November 2012
... as “more” does not necessarily
mean “better,” it also does not always mean “different.”
Just the opposite, in fact. One object of Collins’s scrutiny is the contemporary novel
that deploys the figure of Jane Austen or Edith Wharton as an emblem of an earlier, sim-
pler literary era for which its...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of David Levinsky (1917) by
Abraham Cahan, Twilight Sleep (1927) by Edith Wharton, and Henry James's The Wings of
the Dove (1902Fwith an eye to the ways they "elaborate new forms of intellectual pres-
tige" by representing "whatever category of experience a given literary work posits as the
most...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 499–502.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of self-help that defined the early 1900s. On one side of that divide, Blum presents writers like Flann O'Brien, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; on the other, we find a range of self-help industry counterparts to these more celebrated figures, like George Gurdjieff, who pioneered a course for self...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 171–174.
Published: 01 August 2007
... provokes her reader to find other literary examples to support her
case. The insatiable desire of Undiie Spragg, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's The
C~rstomof tile Cotintry, for example, comes from outside the self in precisely the way
Margolis sets out. Undine famously declares "I want what...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... American Novel—book after book, decade after decade, as if, this time, one might finally be right! Conversely, authors as various as Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Jonathan Franzen have continued to conceive of literary projects as expressions of America...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2011
... states of consciousness.
Where Howells feared the capacity of desire to eclipse intellectual discernment, Chopin
acknowledges its potential to be publicly expressive and potentially communicative. Edith
Wharton is another important figure in Bentley’s study, an author who transformed the
308...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the visceral feelings that certain objects elicited from the people who once lived among them. Appearing at the turn of the century, neither Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) nor Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence (1920) uses anachronism in the interests of a more capacious realism...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 533–537.
Published: 01 November 2018
... project is to make that space visible. The two middle chapters of the book—one on Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses and one on lifestyle writers Dominique Brown and Martha Stewart—are concerned with a domesticity that clearly requires us to think about power and resistance at the same time...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 293–296.
Published: 01 August 2011
... appara-
tus, and Duffy’s achievement here is to offer a way to ground the reading of an experience
in the real historical conditions that fostered it as well as to recuperate the absolute histori-
cal novelty of that fact.
Duffy calls Edith Wharton’s A Motor-Flight through France “fast writing...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2012
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phenomenon of Sex and the City (and author Candace Bushnell’s debt to Edith Wharton),
and the expansion of working-girl fictions by chick literature, touching as it does on Sylvia
Plath’s The Bell Jar, Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, and Margaret Atwood’s The Edible
Woman, among other novels.
472...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
...://www.gutenberg.org/files/34962/34962-h/34962-h.htm#fourth >. Wharton Edith . A Backward Glance . New York : Scribner , 1964 . Wicke Jennifer . Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading . New York : Columbia UP , 1988 . Williams Raymond . “ The Magic...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of Minnesota P , 1964 . Wharton Edith . House of Mirth . New York : Scribner , 1922 . Williams Raymond . The Country and the City . London : Hogarth , 1985 . Winkler Michael . “ Naturalism .” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics . Ed. Greene Roland...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... as a foreign speaker, so would he increasingly bring such expertise back into his use of English. It is fitting that James, we are told, “stuttered in English but rarely in French” ( Shell 21 ). Edith Wharton, for one, noted: “French people have told me that they had never met an Anglo-Saxon who spoke French...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . The Higher Learning in America . Stanford : Academic Reprints , 1954 . “ A Western Realist .” Washington Times 23 Apr. 1899 : 20 . Rpt. in McElrath and Knight 46–48. Wharton Edith . The House of Mirth . New York : Penguin , 1993 . Williams Raymond . Marxism and Literature...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 45–62.
Published: 01 May 2015
... dictionary definitions—that may be advantageous. For example, in a 1915 letter to Edith Wharton, James speculates: “Probably all that's the matter with one is one's vicious propensity to go on feeling more and more, instead of less and less—which would be so infinitely more convenient; for the former course...
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