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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-100299144240

ISBN-139780299144241

eBay Product ID (ePID)82919

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEdith Wharton's Brave New Politics

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

AuthorDale M. Bauer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN94-013432

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisMost critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics, Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications., This work overturns traditional conclusions about the work of Edith Wharton, showing that the writer's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, through authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications., Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels ""The House of Mirth"" and ""The Age of Innocence"", dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In ""Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics"", Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications. Bauer examines the social and political critique implicit in Wharton's later works, from ""Summer"" (1917) to her last novel ""The Bucaneers"" (published posthumously in 1938). She integrates historical, political and feminist concerns to recast Wharton's antimodernism and to recover the novelist's understanding of public life and private morality. ""Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics"" illustrates how literary criticism can change the course of a literary career. In her refutation of the dominant interpretations of Wharton's literary work, Bauer challenges the prevailing conception of this genteel woman of letters, showing that to read Wharton's works in isolation from her complex politics is to misunderstand Wharton's aims and to miss entirely the exhilarating power of these later fictions.

LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16Z58 1994