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- catalog abstract "When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her "inner circle" or, sometimes, "the happy few." This group included both well-known figures, such as James, Percy Lubbock, and Bernard Berenson, and several now forgotten, including John Hugh Smith, Walter Berry, Gaillard Lapsley, Robert Norton, and Howard Sturgis. Drawing on unpublished archival material by and about members of the circle, Susan Goodman here presents an intimate view of this American expatriate community, as well as the larger transatlantic culture it mirrored. She explores how the group, which began forming around 1904 and lasted until Wharton's death in 1937, defined itself against the society its founders had left in the United States, while simultaneously criticizing and accommodating the one it found in Europe. Tracing Wharton's individual relationships with these men and their relationships with one another, she examines literary kinships and movements in the biographical and feminist context of gender, exile, and aesthetics. Individual chapters focus on the history of the circle, its connections to and competition with the Bloomsbury Group, the central friendship of Wharton and James, the dynamics of influence within the circle, and the effect of Wharton's vision of the inner circle on her fiction. A concluding chapter examines the phenomenon of literary exile and investigates how other writers - Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among them - positioned themselves in their inherited or chosen places. Filled with new insights into Wharton's works and her relationships with a group of asexual or homoerotically oriented men, this study will be important reading for all readers of American literature, literary modernism, and gender studies.".
- catalog contributor b5793349.
- catalog coverage "Europe Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Edith Wharton's inner circle -- The land of letters -- The inner circle and Bloomsbury -- Edith Wharton and Henry James : secret sharers -- Howard Sturgis, Percy Lubbock, and Bernard Berenson -- Love and exile : Edith Wharton's fictional selves -- A meditation on place.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-157) and index.".
- catalog description "When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her "inner circle" or, sometimes, "the happy few." This group included both well-known figures, such as James, Percy Lubbock, and Bernard Berenson, and several now forgotten, including John Hugh Smith, Walter Berry, Gaillard Lapsley, Robert Norton, and Howard Sturgis. Drawing on unpublished archival material by and about members of the circle, Susan Goodman here presents an intimate view of this American expatriate community, as well as the larger transatlantic culture it mirrored. She explores how the group, which began forming around 1904 and lasted until Wharton's death in 1937, defined itself against the society its founders had left in the United States, while simultaneously criticizing and accommodating the one it found in Europe. Tracing Wharton's individual relationships with these men and their relationships with one another, she examines literary kinships and movements in the biographical and feminist context of gender, exile, and aesthetics. Individual chapters focus on the history of the circle, its connections to and competition with the Bloomsbury Group, the central friendship of Wharton and James, the dynamics of influence within the circle, and the effect of Wharton's vision of the inner circle on her fiction. A concluding chapter examines the phenomenon of literary exile and investigates how other writers - Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among them - positioned themselves in their inherited or chosen places. Filled with new insights into Wharton's works and her relationships with a group of asexual or homoerotically oriented men, this study will be important reading for all readers of American literature, literary modernism, and gender studies.".
- catalog extent "xii, 165 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Edith Wharton's inner circle.".
- catalog identifier "0292727712".
- catalog isFormatOf "Edith Wharton's inner circle.".
- catalog isPartOf "Literary modernism series".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Edith Wharton's inner circle.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/0052 B 20".
- catalog subject "Americans Europe History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Europe.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "PS3545.H16 Z654 1994".
- catalog subject "Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Friends and associates.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Edith Wharton's inner circle -- The land of letters -- The inner circle and Bloomsbury -- Edith Wharton and Henry James : secret sharers -- Howard Sturgis, Percy Lubbock, and Bernard Berenson -- Love and exile : Edith Wharton's fictional selves -- A meditation on place.".
- catalog title "Edith Wharton's inner circle / Susan Goodman.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".