Embattled tendencies: Wharton, Woolf and the nature of Modernism

Edith Wharton eyed Bloomsbury as an intellectually remote and morally murky world, admiring only one of its members, Lytton Strachey. After Mary Berenson urged her to read Virginia Woolf’sOrlandoin 1928, Wharton responded viscerally to the advertising photographs of Woolf, claiming the images made h...

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Art history
Artists
Arts
Communications
Concept of mind
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Fiction
Labor economics
Literary criticism
Literary elements
Literary genres
Literary history
Literary studies
Literature
Metaphysics
Modern literature
Modernist art
Narrative point of view
Narratives
Narrators
Novelists
Novels
Occupations
Performing arts
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Social sciences
Theater
Writers
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