Plot, theme, and setting in Wharton's 1928 novel clearly provoke biosocial investigation: her portrait of the Jazz Age highlights intergenerational conflict and disturbed familial interactions.

One might think that R.W.B. Lewis's excellent 1975 biography had precluded the need for another book about Edith Wharton. Not so. Reading Lee's superb new biography is akin to comparing a fine ...

Vol. 13, No. 2, EDITH WHARTON AT YALE: A Special Issue, Part I (Spring 1996), pp. 15-26 (12 pages) Edith Wharton Review is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, scholarly journal publishing scholarship on ...

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Edith Wharton has written 6 shows including The Joy of Living (Playwright), The House of Mirth (Playwright), The Custom of the Country (Source Material), Summer (Source Material), Lily (Source ...

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IN THE EARLY 20th century, the American author Edith Wharton wrote of her stately home and garden in the Massachusetts Berkshires, “…this place, every line of which is my own work, far surpasses ‘The ...