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.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: xxi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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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.