Pastoral cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton's fiction : the world is a welter /

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cadima, Margarida (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2023.
Series:Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures.
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Pastoral literature, American > History and criticism.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gardens
  • The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden
  • American Back Grounds
  • Garden "Haunts"
  • Central Park as an "Ecological Threshold"?
  • French Gardens and Their Meaning
  • Part II. Mountains
  • "Endless Plays of Mountain Forms" : Mapping the Mountains
  • Edith Wharton's European Mountains of Leisure
  • Rural Americana and the "New World" Mountains
  • Part III. Ruin/Ation
  • Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton's Sedimented Vision
  • "Old" Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire
  • Stony Waste-The "New Ruin" in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins.

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