My "dull-witted enemy": symbolic violence and abject maleness in Edith Wharton's 'Summer.'
| Publisher | Northeastern University |
| Publication | Studies in American Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0091-8083 |
| Issues per Year | 2 |
| Volume | v24 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1996-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Pierre Bourdieu |
| Author | n/a | William E. Hummel |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Edith Wharton |
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| Summer | eNotes |
"Where in New England did Mrs. Wharton unearth the scene and people for her latest novel?" the Boston Transcript cried in 1917 of Summer--a novel that, despite the querulous reviews it received, Edith Wharton ranked as one of her five favorites.(1) Unable to offer a satisfying answer to this question, many reviewers expressed their dislike for a novel that Wharton considered an extension of Ethan Frome (1911), which had enjoyed great popular success.(2) But if reviewers were puzzled and exasperated, Wharton's creation of what Shari Benstock calls "a novel that indicts American...
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