Edith Wharton in Context by Adeline R. Tintner - 9780817358402

Edith Wharton in ContextEssays on Intertextuality\nAuthor(s): Adeline R. Tintner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817358402, 978-0817358402\nSynopsis\nTintner provides a detailed analysis of the complex interplay between Wharton and James?how they influenced each other and how some of their writings operate as homages or personal jokes. So deeply was James in Wharton??s confidence, Tintner argues, that he provided her with source models for a number of her characters. In addition, Wharton found in his fiction structures for her own, especially for?The Age of Innocence.\n\nTintner also brings her considerable knowledge of art history to bear in her study of art allusions in Wharton??s work. Wharton??s response both to the Italian painters active before Raphael and to the English Pre-Raphaelites of a generation before her own is analyzed here in three essays. These pieces demonstrate Wh.