Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Metaphors of “Instinct and Tradition”; Chapter 2 “Blind Inherited Scruples”: Lily Bart's Evolutionary Ethics; Chapter 3 The Incoherence of “Progress” in The Custom of the Country; Chapter 4 Newland Archer's “Hieroglyphic World”; ConclusionThe Limits of Wharton's “Objective Faculty”;

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Paul J. Ohler