Gender And The Gothic In The Fiction Of Edith Wharton

Author : Kathy A. Fedorko
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817359133

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Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton by Kathy A. Fedorko Pdf

An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton is an innovative study that provides fresh insights into Wharton’s male characters while at the same time showing how Wharton’s imagining of a fe/male self evolves throughout her career. Using feminist archetypal theory and theory of the female Gothic, Kathy A. Fedorko shows how Wharton, in sixteen short stories and six major novels written during four distinct periods of her life, adopts and adapts Gothic elements to explore the nature of feminine and masculine ways of knowing and being and to dramatize the tension between them. Edith Wharton’s contradictory views of women and men—her attitudes toward the feminine and the masculine—reflect a complicated interweaving of family and social environment, historical time, and individual psychology. Studies of Wharton have exhibited this same kind of contradiction, with some seeing her as disparaging men and the masculine and others depicting her as disparaging women and the feminine. The use of Gothic elements in her fiction provided Wharton, who was often considered the consummate realist, with a way to dramatize the conflict between feminine and masculine selves as she experienced them and to evolve an alternative to the dualism. Fedorko’s work is unique in its careful consideration of Wharton’s sixteen Gothic works, which are seldom discussed. Further, the revelation of how these Gothic stories are reflected in her major realistic novels. In the novels with Gothic texts, Wharton draws multiple parallels between male and female protagonists, indicating the commonalities between women and men and the potential for a female self. Eventually, in her last completed novel and her last short story, Wharton imagines human beings who are comfortable with both gender selves.

Author : Jenni Dyman
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018367107

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Lurking Feminism by Jenni Dyman Pdf

"Lurking Feminism" explores Edith Wharton's legacy as a writer of supernatural fiction through her subversive use of the ghost story to express feminist concerns. Her stories protest the domination of patriarchal structures and language. Moreover, they probe the complexities facing both men and women in defining gender roles and experiencing sexuality, in overcoming power struggles in relationships, and in resolving internal conflicts between debilitating, but often safe, attitudes and behaviors, and the desire for growth.

Author : J. Haytock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230612013

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Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism by J. Haytock Pdf

This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.

Author : Ferdâ Asya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030527426

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Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction by Ferdâ Asya Pdf

This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.

Author : Melissa McFarland Pennell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313058196

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Student Companion to Edith Wharton by Melissa McFarland Pennell Pdf

One of the most accomplished American writers of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton achieved both critical recognition and popular acclaim. This Student Companion provides an introduction to Wharton's fiction. Beginning with her life and career, the volume places Wharton in the context of her times, focusing on how she was shaped by the culture of wealth and privilege into which she was born. Her struggle to resist the demands of her social world paralleled her characters' lives and contributed to the power of her writing. Included are an in-depth discussion of her writing, along with analyses of thematic concerns, character development, historical context, and plot. A close critical reading covers each of her major works, with a full chapter devoted to each: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), Summer (1917), The Age of Innocence (1920), and her two novellas, Madame de Treymes (1907) and The Old Maid (1924). Another chapter addresses Wharton's short stories and considers some of her most famous and anthologized tales, such as The Other Two and Roman Fever. This companion is ideal for students who are reading Wharton for the first time, or for general readers who are seeking a greater understanding of her writing. A select bibliography offers suggestions for further reading about Wharton and includes criticism and contemporary reviews of her work.

Author : Janet Beer,Pamela Knights,Elizabeth Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415350105

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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth by Janet Beer,Pamela Knights,Elizabeth Nolan Pdf

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume also provides: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The House of Mirth a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the The House of Mirth, by Edie Thornton, Katherine Joslin, Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan, Kathy Fedorko and Pamela Knights, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The House of Mirth and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton’s text.

Author : Laurie Champion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313032554

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945 by Laurie Champion Pdf

Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover for the first time neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses a particular author's biography, her major works and themes, and the critical response to her writings. The entries close with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading. The period surveyed by this reference is rich and diverse. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, two major artistic movements, occurred between 1900 and 1945, and the entries included here demonstrate the significant contributions women made to these movements. The volume as a whole strives to reflect the diversity of American culture and includes entries for African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women. It includes well known writers such as Willa Cather and Eudora Welty, along with more neglected ones such as Anita Scott Coleman and Sui Sin Far.

Author : Emily J. Orlando
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817315375

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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts by Emily J. Orlando Pdf

This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.

Author : Susan Wolstenholme
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791412199

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Gothic (Re)Visions by Susan Wolstenholme Pdf

Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. But why these issues? What is specifically "female" about "Gothic?" This book argues that Gothic modes provide women who write with special means to negotiate their way through their double status as women and as writers, and to subvert the power relationships that hinder women writers. Current theories of "gendered" observation complicate the idea that Gothic-marked fiction relies on composed, individual scenes and visual metaphors for its effect. The texts studied here--by Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Edith Wharton--explode the authority of a unitary, centralized narrative gaze and establish instead a diffuse, multi-angled textual position for "woman." Gothic moments in these novels create a textualized space for the voice of a "woman writer," as well as inviting the response of a "woman reader."

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117143

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The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Author : Joyce W. Warren,Margaret Dickie
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820343532

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Challenging Boundaries by Joyce W. Warren,Margaret Dickie Pdf

What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this long-needed revision? This timely collection of essays by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. Not content to rediscover and awkwardly "fit" female writers into the "white male" scheme of anthologies and college courses, editors Margaret Dickie and Joyce W. Warren question the current boundaries of literary periods, advocating a revised literary canon. The essays consider a wide range of American women writers, including Mary Rowlandson, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Frances Harper, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell and Adrienne Rich, discussing how the present classification of these writers by periods affects our reading of their work. Beyond the focus of feminist challenges to American literary periodization, this volume also studies issues of a need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The essays are valuable and informative as individual critical studies of specific writers and their works. Challenging Boundaries presents intelligent, original, well-written, and practical arguments in support of long-awaited changes in American literary scholarship and is a milestone of feminist literary study.

Author : Emily Orlando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Alfred Bendixen,James Nagel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119685647

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A Companion to the American Short Story by Alfred Bendixen,James Nagel Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554810178

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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Pdf

This amply annotated edition of Wharton’s 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View.” It is accompanied by the editor’s comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and novellas, Ethan Frome is the one of which Edith Wharton was most proud. Historically viewed as a high society writer or novelist of manners, Wharton is now receiving her due as an astute chronicler and critic of American life who brought literary realism to new levels and helped to usher in a period of modernist innovation. This Broadview Edition demonstrates that Ethan Frome, a nightmarish saga of thwarted romance, is not an anomaly in Wharton’s career, but a natural outgrowth of her interest in the interplay of individual and society.

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195156034

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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth by Carol J. Singley Pdf

'The House of Mirth' is perhaps Edith Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches.