Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp (review)

Critics and scholars generally assume that their vast biographical differences, such as social class and geographical location, lead to an unbridgeable gap between their literary creations, including their characters, settings, and themes. [...]their lives in New York intersected, and their works as...

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Published in:	Modern Fiction Studies 2021-10, Vol.67 (3), p.602-604
Main Author:	Nie, Lingfeng
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Ambiguity American literature Authorship Biographies Cather, Willa (1873-1947) Culture Literary characters Literary devices Literature Novels Social classes Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Writers
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Summary:	Critics and scholars generally assume that their vast biographical differences, such as social class and geographical location, lead to an unbridgeable gap between their literary creations, including their characters, settings, and themes. [...]their lives in New York intersected, and their works associated with the city, such as Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth and A Son at the Front and Cather’s stories, “Paul’s Case” and “Coming, Aphrodite!” suggest their parallel fear of US culture’s privileging of money over beauty and materialism over art. [...]The Spirt of the Pioneers’: Thea and Undine” in chapter 4, previously published as “Girls from the Provinces: Wharton’s Undine Spragg and Cather’s Thea Kronborg,” needs revamping and trimming, to better blend with the remainder of the chapter.
ISSN:	0026-7724 1080-658X 1080-658X