Edith Wharton And Cosmopolitanism

Author : Meredith L. Goldsmith,Emily J. Orlando
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813055923

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism by Meredith L. Goldsmith,Emily J. Orlando Pdf

"These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton's engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works."--Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors: Ferdâ Asya | William Blazek | Rita Bode | Donna Campbell | Mary Carney | Clare Virginia Eby | June Howard | Meredith L. Goldsmith | Sharon Kim | D. Medina Lasansky | Maureen Montgomery | Emily J. Orlando | Margaret A. Toth | Gary Totten

Author : Margarida Cadima
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839988448

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Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction by Margarida Cadima Pdf

American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.” This book pushes against the grain of critical orthodoxy by prioritizing other “species of spaces” in Wharton’s work. For example, how do Wharton’s narratives represent the organic profusion of external nature? Does the current scholarly fascination with the environmental humanities reveal previously unexamined or overlooked facets of Wharton’s craft? I propose that what is most striking about her narrative practice is how she utilizes, adapts, and translates pastoral tropes, conventions, and concerns to twentieth-century American actualities. It is no accident that Wharton portrays characters returning to, or exploring, various natural localities, such as private gardens, public parks, chic mountain resorts, monumental ruins, or country-estate “follies.” Such encounters and adventures prompt us to imagine new relationships with various geographies and the lifeforms that can be found there. The book addresses a knowledge gap in Wharton and the environmental humanities, especially recent debates in ecocriticism. The excavation of Wharton's words and the background of her narratives with an eye to offering an ecocritical reading of her work is what the book focuses on.

Author : Emily Orlando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350182943

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton by Emily Orlando Pdf

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. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. 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.

Author : Jennifer Haytock,Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108422697

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The New Edith Wharton Studies by Jennifer Haytock,Laura Rattray Pdf

Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton's life and career.

Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0801489237

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Cosmopolitan Vistas by Tom Lutz Pdf

In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the past 150 years. Through readings of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others, Lutz identifies what he calls literary cosmopolitanism: an ethos of representational inclusiveness, of the widest possible affiliation, and at the same time one of aesthetic discrimination, and therefore exclusivity.At the same time that it embraces the entire world, in Lutz's view, literary cosmopolitanism necessitates an evaluative stance, and it is this doubleness, this combination of egalitarianism and elitism, that animates American literature since the Civil War. The nineteenth century's realists and sentimentalists, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Southern Renaissance, the firebrands who brought in the new canon and the traditionalists who struggled to save the old all ascribe, Lutz argues, to the same cosmopolitan values, however much they disagree on what these values demand of those who hold them.

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349595570

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Edith Wharton and Genre by Laura Rattray Pdf

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form. Her versatility across genres did not represent brief sidesteps, temporary diversions from what has long been read as her primary role as novelist. Each was pursued fully and whole-heartedly, speaking to Wharton’s very sense of herself as an artist and her connected vision of artistry and art. The stories of these other Edith Whartons, born through her extraordinary dexterity across a wide range of genres, and their impact on our understanding of her career, are the focus of this new study, revealing a bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than has long been supposed.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:470900798

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The Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107010192

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Edith Wharton in Context by Laura Rattray Pdf

This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664109088

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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Pdf

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the turn of the last century. Lily is a woman of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152286394X

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In Morocco by Edith Wharton Pdf

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192603333

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A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton Pdf

'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307555854

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Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Pdf

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York : Collier Books
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076001622781

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The Letters of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

Here are the intimate letters of Edith Wharton--the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--detailing her work, her family, her friendship with Henry James, and her passion for the American journalist Morton Fullerton. The letters reveal a remarkable, independent woman who lived life fully. Three 8-page inserts.

Author : Adeline R. Tintner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817358402

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Edith Wharton in Context by Adeline R. Tintner Pdf

These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton's textual relationships with authors whom she knew well--especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.

Author : Clare Colquitt,Susan Goodman,Candace Waid
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136679

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A Forward Glance by Clare Colquitt,Susan Goodman,Candace Waid Pdf

In June 1923, Edith Wharton, who had not set foot on native soil since before the First World War, came home to accept an honorary degree from Yale University. In April 1995, friends of Wharton again convened at Yale. The essays collected in "A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton" represent a portion of the ocmplex and varied scholarly work delivered at that conference. -- From publisher's description.