The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton

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The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton is written by Helen Killoran and published by Boydell & Brewer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1571131019 (ISBN 10) and 9781571131010 (ISBN 13).

Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, the criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals. The reasons reside in critics' loyalties to various theoretical approaches, the objectivity of which are often compromised by political hopes. This volume not only traces and analyzes the development of Whartonian literary criticism in its historical and political contexts, but also allows Edith Wharton, herself a literary critic, to respond to various concepts through the author's deductions and extrapolations from Wharton's own words.