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Edith Wharton turned the cultural dislocations of the passage between nineteenth and twentieth centuries to her advantage as a writer; her re-orientation of the social world, in fiction and in travelogue, advanced both understanding and possibility for the artist. Her whole output — the novels and guidebooks, novellas and critical writings, to say nothing of the considerable number and range of her short stories — inter-penetrate and inform each other, making clear thematic or geographical difference yet illustrating and extending the overall coherence of her creative achievement.
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© 1990 Janet Patricia Goodwyn
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Goodwyn, J. (1990). Conclusion. In: Edith Wharton. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20447-2_9
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