Edith Wharton in context / edited by Laura Rattray, University of Hull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rattray, Laura, editor.

Series:

Literature in context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Wharton, Edith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights.

Contents:

Edith Wharton: contextual revisions / Laura Rattray

Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context / Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray

Biography / Melanie Dawson

Composition and publication / Sharon Kehl Califano

Portraits of Wharton / Susan Goodman

Contemporary reviews, 1877-1938 / Heidi M. Kunz

Obituaries / Linda De Roche

'Justice' to Edith Wharton?: The early critical responses / Melissa M. Pennell

Modern critical receptions / Jessica Schubert McCarthy

Wharton and her editors / Sharon Shaloo

Selling Wharton / Gary Totten

Serialization / Elsa Nettels

Short story markets / Bonnie Shannon McMullen

Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction / John Dennis Anderson

Wharton's writings on screen / Anne-Marie Evans

Visual arts / Emily J. Orlando

Architecture / Cecilia Macheski

Interior and garden design / Helena Chance

Images of Wharton / Katherine Joslin

The marriage market / Pamela Knights

Leisured lives / Maureen E. Montgomery

Wharton and gender / Linda Wagner-Martin

Race and imperialism / Margaret Toth

Social transitions / Adam Jabbur

Wharton and France / William Blazek

Wharton and Italy / Robin Peel

Wharton and World War I / Julie Olin-Ammentorp

The 1920s / Gail D. Sinclair

Wharton and the Great Depression / Carol J. Singley

Literary influences / Judith P. Saunders

Wharton and the American romantics / Linda Costanzo Cahir

The novel of manners / Cecilia Macheski

Naturalism / Donna Campbell

Modernism / Jennifer Haytock.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23464-6

1-107-30129-7

1-107-30551-9

1-107-31412-7

1-107-30637-X

0-511-84565-0

1-107-30857-7

1-299-25719-4

OCLC:

819654997