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"Hoeller (Babson College) makes a valuable contribution in this exemplary study of Wharton's fiction and its critics. Notable for its clarity, cogent definitions, and incisive analyses." -Choice
--Choice

"Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction is erudite, investigating the full span of Wharton's career to demonstrate her oeuvre's genre ambivalence and debt to the sentimental tradition." - American Literary Realism
--American Literary Realism

"Will be of value to women's studies scholars. Hoeller thus rightly declares that to take sentimental literature seriously involves ' a reinvention.. of our own critical standards and convictions and a redefinition of the cannon that these critical beliefs create and uphold' In this respect, Hoeller's examination of Wharton's 'dialogue' with realist economy and sentimental excess is both revolutionary and refreshing." - American Literature
--American Literature

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