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Edith Wharton in Context

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107310814
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton in Context written by Laura Rattray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Edith Wharton in Context

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010195
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton in Context written by Laura Rattray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.

Edith Wharton

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307555852
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Hermione Lee and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.

Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld

Author : Candace Waid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807843024
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld written by Candace Waid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides examinations and interpretations of several works by Wharton, and concentrates on the theme of women as artist

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Author : Emily J. Orlando
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817315373
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts written by Emily J. Orlando and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture

Author : Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496216881
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture written by Julie Olin-Ammentorp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton's The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and Cather's O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Yet despite their perennial popularity and their status as major American novelists, Wharton (1862-1937) and Cather (1873-1947) have rarely been studied together. Indeed, critics and scholars seem to have conspired to keep them at a distance: Wharton is seen as "our literary aristocrat," an author who chronicles the lives of the East Coast, Europe-bound elite, while Cather is considered a prairie populist who describes the lives of rugged western pioneers. These depictions, though partially valid, nonetheless rely on oversimplifications and neglect the striking and important ways the works of these two authors intersect. The first comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather in thirty years, this book combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal Wharton's and Cather's parallel experiences of dislocation, their relationship to each other as writers, and the profound similarities in their theories of fiction. Julie Olin-Ammentorp provides a new assessment of the affinities between Wharton and Cather by exploring the importance of literary and geographic place in their lives and works, including the role of New York City, the American West, France, and travel. In doing so she reveals the two authors' shared concern about the culture of place and the place of culture in the United States.

Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Author : Katherine Joslin
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584657790
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion written by Katherine Joslin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the modern fashion industry as seen through the works of Edith Wharton

What a Library Means to a Woman

Author : Sheila Liming
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960666
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book What a Library Means to a Woman written by Sheila Liming and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.

Edith Wharton

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646123
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Carol J. Singley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

The Writing of Fiction

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Writing of Fiction written by Edith Wharton and published by New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1925 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton is renowned for her nonfiction work "The writing of Fiction" and provides classic guidance on Writing and reading. Wharton was the very first female to win, in fact, a Pulitzer Prize with this particular book becoming a rare nonfiction piece. It features a new introduction by Brandon Taylor and offers a rare look into Wharton's views on the arts of reading and writing. Wharton examines different issues with writing in this particular publication, which include character development, the art of crafting exquisite short stories, and the structure of a novel. Not simply a writing guide but a broad meditation by a great practitioner. Wharton draws on her great knowledge of being a renowned novelist renowned for her sharp critiques of upper-class culture in addition to her formal remarkable works. Edith Wharton's "The writing of Fiction" is a tremendous contribution to literary critique and Writing guidance. The very first female to win a Pulitizer Prize, this nonfiction book offers ageless guidance on reading and writing. Wharton, a author of books like "The Age of Innocence," "The House of Mirth," "The Custom of the Country," pertains her sharp critique and intimate understanding of upper class society to this novel. Wharton explores different facets in the literary craft in the book. She gives information on character development, short story writing and the bigger story structure of a novel. Her discussion goes beyond pure technical guidance; Her observations and experiences as a renowned novelist serve as a meditation on writing.

Edith Wharton

Author : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099358916
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Motor-Flight Through France (1908) by Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0359173381
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book A Motor-Flight Through France (1908) by Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue.

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485135
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton written by Millicent Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.

Student Companion to Edith Wharton

Author : Melissa McFarland Pennell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058199
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Student Companion to Edith Wharton written by Melissa McFarland Pennell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most accomplished American writers of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton achieved both critical recognition and popular acclaim. This Student Companion provides an introduction to Wharton's fiction. Beginning with her life and career, the volume places Wharton in the context of her times, focusing on how she was shaped by the culture of wealth and privilege into which she was born. Her struggle to resist the demands of her social world paralleled her characters' lives and contributed to the power of her writing. Included are an in-depth discussion of her writing, along with analyses of thematic concerns, character development, historical context, and plot. A close critical reading covers each of her major works, with a full chapter devoted to each: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), Summer (1917), The Age of Innocence (1920), and her two novellas, Madame de Treymes (1907) and The Old Maid (1924). Another chapter addresses Wharton's short stories and considers some of her most famous and anthologized tales, such as The Other Two and Roman Fever. This companion is ideal for students who are reading Wharton for the first time, or for general readers who are seeking a greater understanding of her writing. A select bibliography offers suggestions for further reading about Wharton and includes criticism and contemporary reviews of her work.

Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501182838
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. This revealing collection of 134 poems brings together a fascinating array of her verse—including fifty poems that have never before been published. The celebrated American novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton, author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence, was also a dedicated, passionate poet. A lover of words, she read, studied, and composed poetry all of her life, publishing her first collection of poems at the age of sixteen. In her memoir, A Backward Glance, Wharton declared herself dazzled by poetry; she called it her “chiefest passion and greatest joy.” The 134 selected poems in this volume include fifty published for the first time. Wharton’s poetry is arranged thematically, offering context as the poems explore new facets of her literary ability and character. These works illuminate a richer, sometimes darker side of Wharton. Her subjects range from the public and political—her first published poem was about a boy who hanged himself in jail—to intimate lyric poems expressing heartbreak, loss, and mortality. She wrote frequently about works of art and historical figures and places, and some of her most striking work explores the origins of creativity itself. These selected poems showcase Wharton’s vivid imagination and her personal experience. Relatively overlooked until now, her poetry and its importance in her life provide an enlightening lens through which to view one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

Edith Wharton in France

Author : Claudine Lesage
Publisher : Easton Studio Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1632260948
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton in France written by Claudine Lesage and published by Easton Studio Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unexamined and untranslated French sources, Claudine Lesage has illuminated the intertwined characters and important relationships of Wharton’s French life. The bulk of the new material comes from the daybooks of Paul and Minnie Bourget; Wharton’s letters (in French) to Léon Bélugou; and the author’s personal research in Hyères. Highlights include letters used in Wharton’s divorce proceedings and a mysterious autobiographical essay written by Wharton’s lover Morton Fullerton. Most significantly, Wharton’s friendship with Bélugou, absent from most Wharton biographies, is, for the first time, fully recounted through their extensive intimate correspondence. The year 1907 was a milestone in Edith Wharton’s life and work. Unlike Joseph Conrad, who had, virtually overnight, forsaken his native land for an adopted one, Mrs. Wharton’s transition required several years of shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic. At first, all of Europe beckoned to her, but, from 1907 on, Wharton would claim Paris and, after the war, the French countryside as her home. All the while, her work, long regarded as being exclusively American, followed a similar trajectory.

Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers

Author : Ian Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613220702
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers written by Ian Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-part writer's handbook will take your student from high school into college. Part 1 is a course in essays and arguments (helpful for debate, too) with topic-sentence outline models and much more. Part 2 is a traditional reference guide to grammar, style, and usage. You will find yourself using the Handbook almost daily for instruction, reference, and evaluation.