The New Edith Wharton Studies
Published on 19. December 2019
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-1-108-42269-7 (ISBN)
Description
The New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America's most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton's treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author's archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton's life and career.
Reviews / Votes
'... the best of these essays point toward a rejuvenation of the old in ways that allow Wharton fans to gain a deeper understanding of this complex and often misunderstood woman and artist.' S. Batcos, ChoiceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-42269-7 (9781108422697)
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Jennifer Haytock
New Edith Wharton Studies
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12/2019
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Jennifer Haytock | Laura Rattray
The New Edith Wharton Studies
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12/2019
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Persons
Jennifer Haytock is the author of At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003), Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008), The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women's Novels in the 1930s (2013), and The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018). Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature and Director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her work on Wharton includes Edith Wharton in Context (Cambridge, 2012), The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton (2009) and the Oxford World Classics edition of Summer (2015).
Content
1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray; Part I. Self and Composition: 2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler; 3. Wharton's letters: glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp; 4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead; Part II. International Wharton: 5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou; 6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard; 7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell; Part III. Wharton on the Margins: 8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray; 9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis; 10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan; 11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock; Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited: 12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten; 13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin; 14. Masculine modernity: fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson; 15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.