Word: jamesian
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others, a feeble gait...