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Solitude and society in the works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton
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Solitude and society in the works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton

Author: Linda Costanzo Cahir
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: Contributions to the study of American literature, no. 3.
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This study demonstrates that Edith Wharton read a significant portion of Herman Melville's writings. It reveals that the two authors shared a similar way of viewing the world, particularly with  Read more...

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Cahir, Linda Costanzo.
Solitude and society in the works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607075625
Named Person: Herman Melville; Edith Wharton; Herman Melville; Edith Wharton; Herman Melville; Edith Wharton; Herman Melville; Edith Wharton
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Linda Costanzo Cahir
ISBN: 0313304076 9780313304071
OCLC Number: 39195491
Description: xv, 155 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Melville and Wharton: The American Diptych --
2. The Devil's Children: The Isolation of Self-Reliance --
3. The Mysterious Stranger --
4. The Sociable Isolato --
5. The Sexual Transgressor.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of American literature, no. 3.
Responsibility: Linda Costanzo Cahir.

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