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A historical guide to Edith Wharton / edited by Carol J. Singley.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.H16 Z663 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historical guides to American authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Knowledge and learning--History.
- Wharton, Edith.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- History.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
- Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and history.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 302 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
- Contents:
- Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: A Brief Biography / Shari Benstock 19
- Wharton in Her Time
- Wharton's Women: In Fashion, In History, Out of Time / Martha Banta 51
- Emerson, Darwin, and The Custom of the Country / Cecelia Tichi 89
- Wharton's "Others": Addiction and Intimacy / Dale M. Bauer 115
- Wharton, Travel, and Modernity / Nancy Bentley 147
- Wharton and Art / Eleanor Dwight 181
- Wharton and the Age of Film / Linda Costanzo Cahir 211
- Bibliographical Essay: Visions and Revisions of Wharton / Clare Colquitt 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195135903
- 0195135911
- OCLC:
- 50590848
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