[BOOK][B] Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics
DM Bauer - 1994 - books.google.com
DM Bauer
1994•books.google.comMost 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.
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.
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.
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