Apart from modernism; Edith Wharton, politics, and fiction before World War I.0838640796 Apart from modernism modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. ; Edith Wharton, politics, and fiction before World War I. Peel, Robin. Fairleigh Dickinson U.P. 2005 345 pages $57.50 Hardcover PS3545 Peel (English, U. of Plymouth) examines Wharton's journey toward early modernism and away from it, finding hers a conscious ethical decision Real life ethical decisions are studied in sociology and political science and psychology using very different methods than descriptive ethics in ethics (philosophy). Not ethics proper to make such a change. Although Wharton's early life and work (including The Valley of Decision, The House of Mirth and The Fruit of the Tree) indicated the influences of French literature, bohemianism Bohemianism Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The Gertrude Stein’s memoir of Paris’ Bohemia. [Am. Lit.: Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. and her friend Henry James, her later work (The Reef, Ethan Frome and The Custom of the Country) reflected her coming to conclusions about the purpose of literature in the "good society." Wharton's change in attitude may have come from the circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or of her personal life, but Peel shows how her thinking on politics, gender, empire and class, her work and its reception, and her relationships with early modernists turned her away from modernist experimentation in favor of naturalism naturalism, in art naturalism, in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez, J. F. Millet, and Monet, have followed naturalistic principles. . Distributed by Associated University Presses. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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