A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton

by Colquitt, Clare; Goodman, Susan; Waid, Candace

• ISBN13: 9780874136678
• ISBN10: 0874136679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Summary

This is the first collection to focus on Edith Wharton and questions of biography, autobiography, and aesthetics, and it explores her fiction and nonfiction with particular attention to gender, race, and class. The volume highlights previously unpublished manuscripts and letters -- notably, an unfinished short story composed in Italian and Wharton's correspondence with landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, her niece.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(4)
Introduction	13	(9)
Edith Wharton's Composed Lives	22	(13)
SUSAN GOODMAN
"Garden Talks": The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Beatrix Farrand	35	(14)
MIA MANZULLI
The Writer's Wardrobe: Wharton Cross-Dressed	49	(13)
DENISE WITZIG
Architectonic or Episodic? Gender and The Fruit of the Tree	62	(14)
KATHERINE JOSLIN
Erotic Visual Tropes in the Fiction of Edith Wharton	76	(24)
MAUREEN HONEY
The Death of Romance: The Portrait of a Lady in the Age of Lily Bart	100	(16)
JEROME LOVING
Form, "Selection," and Ideology in Edith Wharton's Antimodernist Aesthetic	116	(23)
FREDERICK WEGENER
Fighting France: Travel Writing in the Grotesque	139	(10)
MARY SUZANNE SCHRIBER
Edith Wharton as Propagandist and Novelist: Competing Visions of "The Great War"	149	(23)
JUDITH L. SENSIBAR
A "Fairy tale every minute": The Autobiographical Journey and Edith Wharton's In Morocco	172	(16)
STEPHANIE BATCOS
Wharton, Race, and The Age of Innocence: Three Historical Contexts	188	(18)
ANNE MACMASTER
Edith Wharton's Italian Tale: Language Exercise and Social Discourse	206	(15)
GIANFRANCA BALESTRA
The Children: Wharton's Creative Ambivalence to Self, Society, and the "New World"	221	(12)
ELLEN PIFER
List of Contributors	233	(3)
Index	236