Edith Wharton / editor, Myrto Drizou, Valdosta State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drizou, Myrto, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wharton, Edith.

American fiction--20th century--Criticism and interpretation.

American fiction.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 254 pages) : maps.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume will examine a wide range of Whartons works, from her major novels The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence to her war writings, Gothic fiction, and late works, such as The Children and The Glimpses of the Moon. It will address the relationship between Wharton and other writers, including Willa Cather, Henry James, and Charlotte Bront, and will offer fresh perspectives on Whartons views on gender, motherhood, law, architecture, and the classical tradition.

Contents:

Edith Wharton and the paradox of fin-de-siècle modernity / Charlee Sterling

Wharton studies / Dale M. Bauer

Edith Wharton and the rise of the new woman / Isabelle Groenhof

"The one end to which her whole organism tended": Social evolution in Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Hannah Huber

Edith Wharton's "New Visions": An exploration of the influence of Catharine Maria Sedgwick on Bunner Sisters and The Old Maid / Deborah Gussman

"Like patterns stenciled on a wall": Edith Wharton's decoration of fictional houses / Elif S. Armbruster

A new material approach to reading objects in Edith Wharton's novels of manners / Margaret Jay Jessee

Of money, love, and art: Edith Wharton's cultural study of war / Elizabeth Hetzel and Carla Chwat

Edith Wharton and law / Alicia Mischa Renfroe

Edith Wharton's Old New York: Nineteenth-century American literary history and the art of selection in The Age of Innocence / Mollie Barnes

How to write a best-selling novel: The House of Mirth in the classical tradition / Mauro Lo Dico

Edith Wharton's "Roman fever," or the revenge of Daisy Miller / Robert Klevay

Hotel kids incorporated: Childhood counterculture in Edith Wharton's late fiction / Jericho Williams

Unwilling victims: Naturalism and the living dead in Summer and Weeds / Stephanie Metz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781682175743

168217574X

OCLC:

1031373993