Edith Wharton in context
"This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural, and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career"--
Other Authors: | Rattray, Laura. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Physical Description: |
xxi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Edith Wharton: contextual revisions / Laura Rattray
- Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context / Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray
- Biography / Melanie Dawson
- Composition and publication / Sharon Kehl Califano
- Portraits of Wharton / Susan Goodman
- Contemporary reviews, 1877-1938 / Heidi M. Kunz
- Obituaries / Linda De Roche
- 'Justice' to Edith Wharton?: The early critical responses / Melissa M. Pennell
- Modern critical receptions / Jessica Schubert McCarthy
- Wharton and her editors / Sharon Shaloo
- Selling Wharton / Gary Totten
- Serialization / Elsa Nettels
- Short story markets / Bonnie Shannon McMullen
- Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction / John Dennis Anderson
- Wharton's writings on screen / Anne-Marie Evans
- Visual arts / Emily J. Orlando
- Architecture / Cecilia Macheski
- Interior and garden design / Helena Chance
- Images of Wharton / Katherine Joslin
- The marriage market / Pamela Knights
- Leisured lives / Maureen E. Montgomery
- Wharton and gender / Linda Wagner-Martin
- Race and imperialism / Margaret Toth
- Social transitions / Adam Jabbur
- Wharton and France / William Blazek
- Wharton and Italy / Robin Peel
- Wharton and World War I / Julie Olin-Ammentorp
- The 1920s / Gail D. Sinclair
- Wharton and the Great Depression / Carol J. Singley
- Literary influences / Judith P. Saunders
- Wharton and the American romantics / Linda Costanzo Cahir
- The novel of manners / Cecilia Macheski
- Naturalism / Donna Campbell
- Modernism / Jennifer Haytock.