Aufstellung des Gesamtbestands der Wagner Collection
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Wagner Collection: Buch des Monats
R. W. B. Lewis
Edith Wharton: A Biography
New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
“Most feminist critics seem to imply that Wharton, though never one to ally herself with the feminist movements of her day, was a kind of inherent feminist, someone who both fought for and attained her rightful place as a novelist in a period when the novel was dominated by male authors and when upper-class women were taught, as Wharton was, to be more ornamental than intellectual. Moreover, these critics point out, Wharton protested the treatment of women through her portrayals of women caught in the inescapable bonds of social constructs. These points are fundamentally correct; Wharton was and did all these things.”
Julie Olin-Ammentorp, “Edith Wharton’s Challenge to Feminist Criticism.”
Studies in American Fiction 16.2 (1988): 237-44; 237.
Edith Wharton wurde vor 150 Jahren, am 24. Januar 1862, geboren.
