Edith Wharton's The custom of the country : a reassessment / edited by Laura Rattray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rattray, Laura.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Series:

Gender and genre ; no. 3.

Gender and genre ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Custom of the country.

Wharton, Edith.

Physical Description:

xiii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction / Laura Rattray

The custom of the country : Edith Wharton's conversation with the Atlantic Monthly / Susan Goodman

When the reading had to stop : readers, reading and the circulation of texts in The custom of the country / Shafquat Towheed

'Don't cry : it ain't that kind of story' : Wharton's business of fiction, 1908-12 / Bonnie Shannon McMullen

Worst parents ever : cultures of childhood in The custom of the country / Carol J. Singley

Crude ascending the staircase : Undine Spragg and the Armory Show / Emily J. Orlando

'It's better to watch' : compulsive voyeurism in The custom of the country and The house of mirth / Jessica Schubert McCarthy

A 'mist of opopanax' : mapping the scentscape of The custom of the country / Pamela Knights

Landscape with the fall of Undine / Margaret P. Murray

Girls from the Provinces : Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg / Julie Olin-Ammentorp

Men at work in The custom of the country / William Blazek

'Lost in translation' : financial plots and the modernist reader in The custom of the country / Hildegard Hoeller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9781851962242

1851962247

9781851961740

1851961747

OCLC:

426114015

Publisher Number:

99937921311