Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 681814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Griffin Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia Griffin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Information for management: A handbook
"Masculinity" in Uncle Tom's Cabin
IN HIS ANALYSIS OF THE THREE THOUSAND PAGE BEECHER TILTON adultery trial (1875), historian Richard Wightman Fox comments upon the difficulty of retrieving meaning from this Victorian discourse of sentiment and gender: Both the spoken and written word meant something different to them than they do to us.1 And if the language of 1875 is opaque to a modern reader, the language of 1852-1853carrying as it does the freight of confusion, fear, and facti…
Emily Dickinson
A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton
The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this fascinating critical biography. To this new edition of her book, considered by many to be the most perceptive introduction to Wharton's life and work, Cynthia Griffin Wolff has added a chapter on Lily Bart and the lethal stereotypes of women in the 19th-century stage and another on the way Edith Wharton's own sensual awakening led from…
Edith Wharton and the "Visionary" Imagination
In summing up her own creative life, Edith Wharton reflected: No picture of myself would be more than a profile if it failed to give some account of the teeming visions which, ever since my small-childhood, and even at the busiest and most agitated periods of my outward life, have incessantly peopled my inner world.l Wharton always felt the force of this visionary world with a painful keenness, and it seems to have insinuated itself into her life…
Lily Bart and the Beautiful Death
TN House of Mirth Revisited Diana Trilling observes parallel between Bart's decline and the inevitable defeat of in a crass materialistic society.' Trilling does not develop all of implications of this statement, though she goes on to remark that Lily herself possesses quality of a fine work of art and that own ambitions are those of art.2 Certainly new New York's reduction of all values-emotional, ethical, artistic-to questions of portable prope…
Thanatos and Eros: Kate Chopin's the Awakening
undeserved state of neglect; now, partly as a result of new feminist criticism, pendulum has swung in quite other direction, and Chopin has been hailed as an early advocate of women's rights. Edmund Wilson sees Awakening as an anticipation of D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.' Kenneth Eble maintains that the novel is an American Madame Bovary, though such a designation is not precisely accurate. Its central character is similar: marr…
Literary Reflections of the Puritan Character
Thanatos and Eros: Kate Chopin's the Awakening
undeserved state of neglect; now, partly as a result of new feminist criticism, pendulum has swung in quite other direction, and Chopin has been hailed as an early advocate of women's rights. Edmund Wilson sees Awakening as an anticipation of D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.' Kenneth Eble maintains that the novel is an American Madame Bovary, though such a designation is not precisely accurate. Its central character is similar: marr…
"Masculinity" in Uncle Tom's Cabin
IN HIS ANALYSIS OF THE THREE THOUSAND PAGE BEECHER TILTON adultery trial (1875), historian Richard Wightman Fox comments upon the difficulty of retrieving meaning from this Victorian discourse of sentiment and gender: Both the spoken and written word meant something different to them than they do to us.1 And if the language of 1875 is opaque to a modern reader, the language of 1852-1853carrying as it does the freight of confusion, fear, and facti…
Literary Reflections of the Puritan Character
Thanatos and Eros: Kate Chopin's the Awakening
undeserved state of neglect; now, partly as a result of new feminist criticism, pendulum has swung in quite other direction, and Chopin has been hailed as an early advocate of women's rights. Edmund Wilson sees Awakening as an anticipation of D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.' Kenneth Eble maintains that the novel is an American Madame Bovary, though such a designation is not precisely accurate. Its central character is similar: marr…
Lily Bart and the Beautiful Death
TN House of Mirth Revisited Diana Trilling observes parallel between Bart's decline and the inevitable defeat of in a crass materialistic society.' Trilling does not develop all of implications of this statement, though she goes on to remark that Lily herself possesses quality of a fine work of art and that own ambitions are those of art.2 Certainly new New York's reduction of all values-emotional, ethical, artistic-to questions of portable prope…
Edith Wharton and the "Visionary" Imagination
In summing up her own creative life, Edith Wharton reflected: No picture of myself would be more than a profile if it failed to give some account of the teeming visions which, ever since my small-childhood, and even at the busiest and most agitated periods of my outward life, have incessantly peopled my inner world.l Wharton always felt the force of this visionary world with a painful keenness, and it seems to have insinuated itself into her life…
A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton
The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this fascinating critical biography. To this new edition of her book, considered by many to be the most perceptive introduction to Wharton's life and work, Cynthia Griffin Wolff has added a chapter on Lily Bart and the lethal stereotypes of women in the 19th-century stage and another on the way Edith Wharton's own sensual awakening led from…
Emily Dickinson
Information for management: A handbook
"Masculinity" in Uncle Tom's Cabin
IN HIS ANALYSIS OF THE THREE THOUSAND PAGE BEECHER TILTON adultery trial (1875), historian Richard Wightman Fox comments upon the difficulty of retrieving meaning from this Victorian discourse of sentiment and gender: Both the spoken and written word meant something different to them than they do to us.1 And if the language of 1875 is opaque to a modern reader, the language of 1852-1853carrying as it does the freight of confusion, fear, and facti…
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