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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rattray, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Gale virtual reference library.
Temas:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Life and works. 1. Edith Wharton: contextual revisions / Laura Rattray ; 2. Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context / Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray ; 3. Biography / Melanie Dawson ; 4. Composition and publication / Sharon Kehl Califano ; 5. Portraits of Wharton / Susan Goodman
  • Part II. Critical receptions. 6. Contemporary reviews 1877-1938 / Heidi M. Kunz ; 7. Obituaries / Linda De Roche ; 8. 'Justice' to Edith Wharton? : The early critical responses / Melissa M. Pennell ; 9. Modern critical receptions / Jessica Schubert McCarthy
  • Part III. Book and publishing history. 10. Wharton and her editors / Sharon Shaloo ; 11. Selling Wharton / Gary Totten ; 12. Serialization / Elsa Nettels ; 13. Short story markets / Bonnie Shannon McMullen
  • Part IV. Arts and aesthetics. 14. Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction / John Dennis Anderson ; 15. Wharton's writings on screen / Anne-Marie Evans ; 16. Visual arts / Emily J. Orlando ; 17. Architecture / Cecilia Macheski ; 18. Interior and garden design / Helena Chance ; 19. Images of Wharton / Katherine Joslin
  • Part V. Social designs. 20. The marriage market / Pamela Knights ; 21. Leisured lives / Maureen E. Montgomery ; 22. Wharton and gender / Linda Wagner-Martin ; 23. Race and imperialism / Margaret Toth ; 24. Social transitions / Adam Jabbur
  • Part VI. Time and place. 25. Wharton and France / William Blazek ; 26. Wharton and Italy / Robin Peel ; 27. Wharton and World War I / Julie Olin-Ammentorp ; 28. The 1920s / Gail D. Sinclair ; 29. Wharton and the Great Depression / Carol J. Singley
  • Part VII. Literary milieux. 30. Literary influences / Judith P. Saunders ; 31. Wharton and the American romantics / Linda Costanzo Cahir ; 32. The novel of manners / Cecilia Macheski ; 33. Naturalism / Donna Campbell ; 34. Modernism / Jennifer Haytock
  • Further reading
  • Index.

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