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.