Contributor
Drizou, Myrto, editor.
Edition Statement:1st edition.
Imprint:Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Smenis, NY : Grey House Publishing, c2017.
Description254 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Edith Wharton and the paradox of fin-de-siecle modernity / Charlee Sterling -- Wharton studies / Dale M. Bauer -- Edith Wharton and the rise of the new woman / Isabelle Groenhof -- "The one end to which her whole organism tended": Social evolution in Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Hannah Huber -- Edith Wharton's "New Visions": An exploration of the influence of Catharine Maria Sedgwick on Bunner Sisters and The Old Maid / Deborah Gussman -- "Like patterns stenciled on a wall": Edith Wharton's decoration of fictional houses / Elif S. Armbruster -- A new material approach to reading objects in Edith Wharton's novels of manners / Margaret Jay Jessee -- Of money, love, and art: Edith Wharton's cultural study of war / Elizabeth Hetzel and Carla Chwat -- Edith Wharton and law / Alicia Mischa Renfroe -- Edith Wharton's Old New York: Nineteenth-century American literary history and the art of selection in The Age of Innocence / Mollie Barnes -- How to write a best-selling novel: The House of Mirth in the classical tradition / Mauro Lo Dico -- Edith Wharton's "Roman fever," or the revenge of Daisy Miller / Robert Klevay -- Hotel kids incorporated: Childhood counterculture in Edith Wharton's late fiction / Jericho Williams -- Unwilling victims: Naturalism and the living dead in Summer and Weeds / Stephanie Metz.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Edith Wharton and the critical discussions surrounding her work. This volume will examine a wide range of Wharton's works, from her major novels The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence to her war writings, Gothic fiction, and late works, such as The Children and The Glimpses of the Moon. It will address the relationship between Wharton and other writers, including Willa Cather, Henry James, and Charlotte Bront#65533;, and will offer fresh perspectives on Wharton's views on gender, motherhood, law, architecture, and the classical tradition. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: A chronology of the author's life A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication A general bibliography A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor Notes on the individual chapter authors A subject index.
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