The New Edith Wharton Studies

The New Edith Wharton Studies

Author: Jennifer Haytock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1108422691

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Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton's life and career.


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Download or read book The New Edith Wharton Studies written by Jennifer Haytock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton's life and career.


Edith Wharton in Context

Edith Wharton in Context

Author: Laura Rattray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1107010195

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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.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton in Context written by Laura Rattray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.


Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Author: Carol J. Singley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521646123

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A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Carol J. Singley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.


Edith Wharton and Genre

Edith Wharton and Genre

Author: Laura Rattray

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1349595578

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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.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton and Genre written by Laura Rattray and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

Author: Jennie A. Kassanoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-09-16

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0521830893

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Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race written by Jennie A. Kassanoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.


Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Author: Emily J. Orlando

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0817315373

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This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts written by Emily J. Orlando and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.


Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

Author: Arielle Zibrak

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1350065560

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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.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence written by Arielle Zibrak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics

Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics

Author: Dale M. Bauer

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780299144241

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Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics, Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications.


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Download or read book Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics, Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications.


Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 081305592X

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"These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton's engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works."--Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors: Ferdâ Asya | William Blazek | Rita Bode | Donna Campbell | Mary Carney | Clare Virginia Eby | June Howard | Meredith L. Goldsmith | Sharon Kim | D. Medina Lasansky | Maureen Montgomery | Emily J. Orlando | Margaret A. Toth | Gary Totten


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Download or read book Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism written by Meredith L. Goldsmith and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton's engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works."--Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors: Ferdâ Asya | William Blazek | Rita Bode | Donna Campbell | Mary Carney | Clare Virginia Eby | June Howard | Meredith L. Goldsmith | Sharon Kim | D. Medina Lasansky | Maureen Montgomery | Emily J. Orlando | Margaret A. Toth | Gary Totten


Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld

Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld

Author: Candace Waid

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780807843024

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Provides examinations and interpretations of several works by Wharton, and concentrates on the theme of women as artist


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Download or read book Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld written by Candace Waid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides examinations and interpretations of several works by Wharton, and concentrates on the theme of women as artist