The Bloomsbury handbook to Edith Wharton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orlando, Emily J., editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Handbooks.

Bloomsbury Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Wharton, Edith.

Gilded Age.

Literary studies--Novelists--United States of America--19th century.

Literary studies.

United States of America--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture..

Contents:

Preface, Dale M. Bauer

Foreword, Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler

1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies, Emily J. Orlando

Part One: Edith Wharton and Identity

2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep, L. Goldsmith

3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane's Closet, Shannon Brennan

4 Picturing Edith Wharton's Modern Woman: Gender and the Social Construction of Age, Melanie V. Dawson

5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree, The Shadow of a Doubt, and Ethan Frome, Maria-Novella Mercuri

Part Two: Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel

6 "Social Order and Individual Appetites": Edith Wharton's Short Stories, 1891-1904, Paul J. Ohler

7 Edith Wharton in Verse, Emily Setina

8 Edith Wharton and Film, Donna M. Campbell

Part Three: Influences and Intertextualities

9 "The Chill Joy of Renunciation": Feminine Sacrifice in Edith Wharton and Christina Rossetti, Margaret Jay Jessee

10 Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Beyond "Surface Differences", Julie Olin-Ammentorp

11 Consciousness in Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Reef and The Golden Bowl, Jill Kress Karn

Part Four Global and Cultural Contexts

12 Edith Wharton and the Narratives of Travel and Tourism, Gary Totten

13 Seeking a Home for the Wretched Exotics: Edith Wharton's Heterotopic Views of Greece, Myrto Drizou

14 "Totally Vanished...Like a Pinch of Dust": Edith Wharton and the Trope of Cultural Extinction, Nir Evron

15 Edith Wharton and Pleasure, Virginia Ricard

16 The Mermaid as Capitalist: Networking and Upward Mobility in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, Francesca Sawaya

Part Five: Edith Wharton's Library

17 Reading the Reader: Edith Wharton's Library, Digital Methods, and the Uses of Data, Sheila Liming

18 The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Preparing the First Authoritative Edition, Carol J. Singley, Donna M. Campbell and Frederick Wegener

Afterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century, Elaine Showalter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350182950

1350182958

9781350182967

1350182966

9781350182943

135018294X

OCLC:

1353824238

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350182967 doi.