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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 (2022) 55 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2022
...John Sampson By forming “a little library of [her] own” (70–71), Wharton charted a path away from what, to others (many of her characters, in fact), might have felt like fate. As she attained international success as a novelist, Wharton amassed a collection of around five thousand books. “[R...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
... that the seeming weaknesses of Lily's character—her gendered embodiment and embedded position within the forces of the capitalist market—are actually, from the point of view of the novel as a whole, key strengths that allow Wharton to imagine possibilities for critical thinking from within the forces of capitalism...
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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 (2020) 53 (2): 137–142.
Published: 01 August 2020
...). To see this mistake in action, Rancière suggests that we might look at the moment in which Wharton has the perspective of The Age of Innocence momentarily converge with Emma Goldman's view that love has nothing to do with marriage and so operates as an anarchic force whenever a society requires them...
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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 (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 (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... through Hybridity .” Theory, Culture and Society 16 . 2 ( 1999 ): 87 – 106 . Bentley Nancy . The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton . New York : Cambridge UP , 1995 . Berlant Lauren . The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American...
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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
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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 (2018) 51 (3): 533–537.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to normativity or capitalism, but they do significantly complicate those dangers and can even create a fragile, contingent, resistant space. Fraiman's 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...
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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 (2009) 42 (2): 261–267.
Published: 01 August 2009
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Bentley, Nancy. The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton. Cambridge: Cam-
bridge UP, 1995.
Buzard, James. “Mass-Observation, Modernism, and Auto-ethnography.” Modernism/
Modernity 4.3 (Sept. 1997): 93–122.
Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century...
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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 (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Wharton 's 1905 House of Mirth offers, ironically, as Lily's Bart's unrealizable ideal). 11 Yet his projected future, unattainable as it is, has a kind of reality nonetheless. Just as a magic-lantern image needs a medium (think of Proust's Golo, trotting across window-curtains, wall, and door...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 427–430.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and round her room; Edna Pontellier going “on and on and on” into the water at the end of Kate Chopin's The Awakening ; the compulsive repetitions of Trina in Frank Norris's McTeague ; Lily Bart's vacillations in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth ; Melanctha's repetitions in Gertrude Stein's Three...
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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 (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Gutenberg. 5 Mar. 2014 < http://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...
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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 (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
... could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together” (132). In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth...
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