Race, culture, nation: Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan - Critical Essay
Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 2003 by Carol J. Singley
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Carol J. Singley is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit and editor or coeditor of five volumes of critical essays on Wharton, feminist theory, Calvinism and modernism, and the American child. She is currently completing a book about representations of adoption in American literature and culture.
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