The Republic of the Spirit

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1841. Oil on canvas, 52 x 78 in. Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York; Photo: Wikimedia Commons

“The Republic of the Spirit: Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life in Two Novels by Edith Wharton,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 10, no. 1 (spring 2024).

“Delving more deeply into the complex history of Cole’s work allows for a richer understanding of how Wharton, her protagonists, and her readers would have understood it within the context of the New York society they inhabited and its power to nurture, tempt, and ultimately thwart the dreams of youth.”

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