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Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230612013

ISBN: 978-1-349-37251-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Apr 3, 2012

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Chapter 1Introduction

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 1 –20

[This study has two interrelated impulses: specifically, to expand the ways we view Edith Wharton and her writing and, more broadly, to rethink the way we discuss literary modernism. Although usually considered a feminist realist writer, Wharton and her oeuvre do not rest comfortably in those...
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Chapter 2Troubling the Subjective: The Problem of Impressionism in The Reef

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 21 –44

[Modernism did not occur in literature alone; all the arts responded to social and cultural changes that affected artists’ understanding of their world. Gertrude Stein’s Paris salon attracted not only writers but painters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cezanne. In Paris in the...
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Chapter 3“Any Change May Mean Something”: Summer, Sexuality, and Single Women

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 45 –73

[James Joyce’s Molly Bloom (“yes”) and T. S. Eliot’s Lil (“It’s them pills I took, to bring it off, she said” [line 160]) have been immortalized in the landscape of literary modernism; together, the two women represent aspects of women’s lives that were foundational to modernism. Women were...
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Chapter 4“Unmediated Bonding Between Men”: The Accumulation of Men in the Short Stories

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 75 –99

[In her classic 1975 essay “The Traffic in Women,” Gayle Rubin describes the dynamics through which power in a patriarchal society works. Bringing together the theories of Freud, Lacan, Engels, Marx, and Levi-Strauss, Rubin argues that patriarchy functions through socially created incest taboos...
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Chapter 5“A Sign of Pain’s Triumph”: War, Art, and Civilization

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 101 –130

[On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the violent hostilities of World War I. By August, French, British, and German troops were mobilized and entrenched along what would be known as...
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Chapter 6“The Readjustment of Personal Relations”: Marriage, Modernism, and the Alienated Self

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 131 –157

[In literature, the prospect of marriage frequently offers the illusion that the individual can become complete in that he or she will be part of a unified whole. This illusion is especially pervasive for female characters, as men usually have other opportunities for fulfillment through their...
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Chapter 7Antimodernism and Looking Pretty: Wharton’s Artistic Practice

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 159 –180

[In James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Stephen Dedalus declares that “I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as...
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Chapter 8Afterword

Haytock, Jennifer

Pages: 181 –183

[At the end of The Age of Innocence, Newland Archer declines to walk up to Ellen Olenska’s Paris apartment on the grounds that he is “old-fashioned.” He is often understood to mean that he prefers the beauty and coherence of old New York ways, the New York of the 1870s in which the novel begins...

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