Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/1975 - 5/31/1976

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


The Quest for Ego Integrity in the Novels of Edith Wharton

FAIN: FA-11022-75

Cynthia G. Wolff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)

To write a substantial study of the fiction of Edith Wharton, tracing the relationship between her growth as a novelist and her own emotional development. The book on Wharton will be a major contribution to the field of psychology and literature and to the new field of feminist criticism.