Morality, Ethics, and Transgression in Edith Wharton's Short Fiction
This essay examines the recurring motif of transgression in Edith Wharton’s short fiction, which demonstrates the author’s career-long development of an aesthetic that foregrounded the often unresolved conflict between individual morality and the morality of prevailing social convention. Although Wh...
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| Language: | English |
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |
| Online Access: | http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/5994 |