The age of experience : the moral and aesthetic sensibility in the fiction of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was an American writer who believed that the aesthetic and moral are inextricably bound together. She thought that one responsive to beauty in nature and art would thereby be the more morally perceptive. Informed by this passionate belief she came to identify the beautiful with the goo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Patrick
Published: University of Leicester 1974
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.737252