| Titre | Edith Wharton ou l'éloge de la mobilité | |
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| Auteur | Colette Collomb-Boureau | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 69, juin 1996 Femmes écrivains au tournant du siècle. | |
| Page | 10 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The themes of Edith Wharton' s short stories confirm what can be detected through her biography : the need for an out-of-step and unsettled position, the necessity of critical, if periodic, distance from a socially ensconced conformity. As a writer it was through her transatlantic wanderings that she could best assert her liberty and Americanness. This is how one could consider Wharton' s work as sociological fiction in which the ideal aloofness of individuality and the inescapable constraints of socialization are made to come to terms. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1996_num_69_1_1647 |
