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Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit considers Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than manners, a novelist who in the exercise of writing sought answers to profound spiritual and metaphysical questions. Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in light of Wharton's religious and philosophical development and her attitudes toward Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism.
Singley situates Wharton in the context of turn-of-the-century science, historicism, and aestheticism, reading her religious and philosophical outlook as an evolving response to the cultural crisis of belief. She further invokes the dynamics of class and gender as central to Wharton's quest, describing the ways in which the author accepted and yet transformed both the classical and Christian traditions that she inherited.
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Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
July 28, 1998, Cambridge University Press
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Edith Wharton: matters of mind and spirit
1995, Cambridge University Press
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"DISCOVERIES in science, which played key roles in the late Victorian struggle with faith, are crucial to understanding Edith Wharton's religious choices."
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