Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters

by Janet Beer

Book Overview

'...in this study, Goodwyn sets the standard for Wharton criticism.' - Judith E. Funston, American Literature 'Janet Goodwyn sets out, by looking at Wharton's appropriation of different cultures, to nail the 'canard' that she was 'but a pale imitator of Henry James' - Hermione Lee, Times Literary Supplement The Land of Letters was henceforth to be my country and I gloried in my new citizenship'. So Edith Wharton described her elation upon the publication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312121466
• ISBN13: 9780312121464
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"