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Edith Wharton

A Study of Her Fiction

By: Blake Nevius

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Blake Nevius’s close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton’s novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have a permanent claim on our attention. Wharton is the only American novelist who has dealt successfully and at length with the remains of traditional New York society, which barely survived the beginning of the twentieth century. She illuminated, as no other novelist of her generation was able to do, a major aspect of U.S. social history through the dramatic conflict between the ideals of the old mercantile and the new industrial societies. Nevius also argues that Wharton, next to Henry James, is our most successful novelist of manners and, along with him, helped preserve the artistic dignity of the novel This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

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Univ of California Press

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0520377567

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Cooper's Landscapes

An Essay on the Picturesque Vision

By: Blake Nevius

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Cooper's Landscapes

An Essay on the Picturesque Vision

By: Blake Nevius

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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140

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Univ of California Press

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0520333446

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9780520333444

Robert Herrick

The Development of a Novelist

By: Blake Nevius

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Robert Herrick

The Development of a Novelist

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386

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University of California Press

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0520366530

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9780520366534

Pleasures of Benthamism

Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy

By: Kathleen Blake

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Pleasures of Benthamism

Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy

By: Kathleen Blake

Examines traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in Victorian literature and culture through the writings of Bentham, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, and others.

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Oxford University Press

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0199563268

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9780199563265

Edith Wharton

A Study of Her Fiction

By: Blake Nevius

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A Study of Her Fiction

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The Prairie

By: James Fenimore Cooper

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The Prairie

By: James Fenimore Cooper

The final novel in Cooper’s epic, The Prairie depicts Natty Bumppo at the end of his life, still displaying his indomitable strength and dignity. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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