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9781107010192

Edith Wharton in Context

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107010192

  • ISBN10:

    1107010195

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-10-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural, and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights. Of interest to English and American studies departments, the volume will also appeal to researchers in gender studies, film studies, book history, art history, and transatlantic studies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Preface
Life and Works
Edith Wharton: contextual revisions
Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context
Biography
Composition and publication
Portraits of Wharton
Critical Receptions
Contemporary reviews 1877-1938
Obituaries
'Justice' to Edith Wharton?: The early critical responses
Modern critical receptions
Book and Publishing History
Wharton and her editors
Selling Wharton
Serialization
Short story markets
Arts and Aesthetics
Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction
Wharton's writings on screen
Visual arts
Architecture
Interior and garden design
Images of Wharton
Social Designs
The marriage market
Leisured lives
Wharton and gender
Race and imperialism
Social transitions
Time and Place
Wharton and France
Wharton and Italy
Wharton and World War I
The 1920s
Wharton and the Great Depression
Literary Milieux
Literary influences
Wharton and the American romantics
The novel of manners
Naturalism
Modernism
Further reading
Index
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