Synopses & Reviews
Judith Fryer's study of novelists Edith Wharton and Willa Cather is a rich examination of the actual and imagined spaces women inhabit, perceive, and create. Turning to the period of America's coming of age, Fryer offers a woman-centered inquiry into an era whose traditional landmarks are the frontier, the rise of the city, and World War I.
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"Judith Fryer offers us an illuminating exploration of how two American woman writers, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, managed to escape the cramping limitations that men had imposed on their lives."--Louis Auchincloss, New York Review of Books
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"A benchmark inquiry, Felicitous Space ranges over a vast landscape of significant detail, probing deeply into the artistic configurations of Wharton and Cather, and through them into the shapes and meanings of fictional space."--John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University