Download or read book The Female Intruder in the Novels of Edith Wharton written by Carol Wershoven and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reflects recent feminist interest in Wharton as a critic of American materialism and as a woman who personally escaped from the confines of the conventional, prosperous Eastern urban society of her time. Building upon the work of R. W. B. Lewis and C. G. Wolff, the author gives close readings of Wharton's best-known novels and traces her interpretation of changing social mores from the 1870s through the 1920s. Concludes that Wharton was not a "fossilized old New Yorker" but an independent, fearless seeker of the intelligent, creative life. ISBN 0-8386-3126-6 : $24.50.