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Author : Jennifer Haytock,Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108422697
Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton's life and career.
Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349595570
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 : Emily Orlando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350182950
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 : Jennie A. Kassanoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521830898
Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107010192
This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.
Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Margarida Cadima
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839988448
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 : Arielle Zibrak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350065567
Following the publication of The Age of Innocence in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. To mark 100 years since the book's first publication, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays brings together leading scholars to explore cutting-edge critical approaches to Wharton's most popular novel. Re-visiting the text through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives, this book considers theories of mind and affect, digital humanities and media studies; narrational form; innocence and scandal; and the experience of reading the novel in the late twentieth century as the child of refugees. With an introduction by editor Arielle Zibrak that connects the 1920 novel to the sociocultural climate of 2020, this collection both celebrates and offers stimulating critical insights into this landmark novel of modern American literature.
Author : Ferdâ Asya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Melissa McFarland Pennell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313058196
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 : Susan Goodman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : 0874515246
Author : Helen Killoran
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131019
Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, the criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals. The reasons reside in critics' loyalties to various theoretical approaches, the objectivity of which are often compromised by political hopes. This volume not only traces and analyzes the development of Whartonian literary criticism in its historical and political contexts, but also allows Edith Wharton, herself a literary critic, to respond to various concepts through the author's deductions and extrapolations from Wharton's own words.
Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199727333
Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113630
A collection of essays on Wharton's novel, The age of innocence, presented in chronological order by date of publication.
Author : Paul J. Ohler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135511401
Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence. The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that Wharton's interest in biology and sociology was central to the thematic and formal elements of her fiction. Ohler argues that Wharton depicts the complex interrelations of New York's gentry and socioeconomic elite from a perspective informed by the main concerns of evolutionary thought. Concentrating on her use of ideas she encountered in works by Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and T.H. Huxley, his readings of Wharton's major novels demonstrate the literary configuration of scientific ideas she drew on and, in some cases, disputed. R.W.B. Lewis writes that Wharton 'was passionately addicted to scientific study': this book explores the ramifications of this fact for her fictional sociobiology. The book explores the ways in which Edith Wharton's scientific interests shaped her analysis of class, affected the formal properties of her fiction, and resulted in her negative valuation of social Darwinism.