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Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the place of culture /

""Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture," the first comparative study of Wharton and Cather in thirty years, combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with approaches focused on place and on aesthetics to reveal the profound similarities in their theorie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olin-Ammentorp, Julie, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Wharton, Cather, place, and culture
  • Contexts and intersections
  • The "literary aristocrat" and the plain-spoken pioneer
  • The land of letters, the kingdom of art
  • The place of culture
  • New York City: beauty, business, and hothouse flowers
  • The West: provinciality, vitality, and the "real" America
  • The idea of France
  • Questions of travel and home.