The Post-World War I Civilization as a “House on fire”. Modernity, Womanhood and Incest in Edith Wharton’s The Mother’s Recompense
Although Edith Wharton did not conceptualize her literary production as modernist, her work partakes of some of the ideas most commonly associated to this movement, among which is the traumatic impact of World War I. As was typical of her methodology, she employed an architectural metaphor to descr...
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Firenze University Press
2022-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/13459 |