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Author : Tricia M. Farwell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820479438
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Ferdâ Asya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030527426
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 : Edith Wharton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664109088
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 : Judith P. Saunders
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786453658
Beneath the polished surface of the genteel environments delineated in Wharton's fiction, characters are competing fiercely for desirable mates, questing for social status and resources, and plotting ruthlessly to advance their relatives' fortunes in life. This book identifies these and other evolutionary issues central to her fiction, demonstrating their significance in terms of character, setting, plot, and theme. Connections to existing Wharton criticism are made throughout the book, so that readers can see how an evolutionary perspective enriches, refutes, or reconfigures insights derived from other critical approaches.
Author : Sharon L. Dean
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572331941
She argues that for both writers, the manner in which they saw and transcribed landscape informed their ways of seeing themselves as artists." "Full of fresh insights into the literary achievements of both Woolson and Wharton, Dean's book will also prompt readers to reconsider their own responses and obligations to landscape and how those responses are shaped by their experiences and by larger cultural forces."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118326022
American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and literature from sub-genres such as feminist and ‘wilderness’ Gothic. Revised and expanded to incorporate suggestions from twelve years of use in many countries An important text for students of the expanding field of Gothic studies Strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307950604
Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her drive and her spark of independent character prevent her from conforming sucessfully. Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals and leads to a dramatic downward spiral into debt and dishonor. One of Edith Wharton’s most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, The House of Mirth unfolds with the force of classical tragedy.
Author : Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440621390
Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052164612X
A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.
Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110481327
This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
Author : Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140232028
Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—now an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732652204
Reproduction of the original: The Long Run by Edith Wharton
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307268204
One of Wharton’s most renowned novels—and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York. • With an introduction by Peter Washington The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May’s disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn between possibility and duty. Wharton’s profound understanding of her characters’ lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of high society, The Age of Innocence is one of Wharton's finest, most illuminative works.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN : 9781438109114
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438109107
An accessible one-volume encyclopedia, this addition to the Literary Movements series is a comprehensive reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today. Hundred