1st Edition
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels
By Paul J. Ohler
Copyright 2006
232 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth , The Custom of the Country , and The Age of Innocence . The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of... Read more
Chapter 1 Metaphors of “Instinct and Tradition”; Chapter 2 “Blind Inherited Scruples”: Lily Bart's Evolutionary Ethics; Chapter 3 The Incoherence of “Progress” in The Custom of the Country; Chapter 4 Newland Archer's “Hieroglyphic World”; ConclusionThe Limits of Wharton's “Objective Faculty”;
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Paul J. Ohler
