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.