This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.

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JENNIFER HAYTOCK is Associate Professor of English at SUNY College at Brockport, USA.

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Troubling the Subjective: The Problem of Impressionism in The Reef 'Any Change May Mean Something:' Summer, Sexuality, and Single Women 'Unmediated Bonding Between Men:' The Accumulation of Men in the Short Stories 'A Sign of Pain's Triumph:' War, Art, and Civilization 'The Readjustment of Personal Relations:' Marriage, Modernism, and the Alienated Self Antimodernism and Looking Pretty: Wharton's Artistic Practice