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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.
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Laura Rattray is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Hull. She is editor of the two-volume The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton (2009) and Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment (2010). Her recent publications include journal articles on Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood, Josephine Johnson and the Hollywood novels of Horace McCoy. She has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her work on Wharton.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2012 Cambridge University Press hadrcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. 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. CONTENTS: Part I. Life and Works 1. Edith Wharton: contextual revisions by Laura Rattray 2. Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context by Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray 3. Biography by Melanie Dawson 4. Composition and publication by Sharon Kehl Califano 5. Portraits of Wharton by Susan Goodman Part II. Critical Receptions 6. Contemporary reviews, 1877-1938 by Heidi M. Kunz 7. Obituaries by Linda De Roche 8. 'Justice' to Edith Wharton? The early critical responses by Melissa M. Pennell 9. Modern critical receptions by Jessica Schubert McCarthy Part III. Book and Publishing History 10. Wharton and her editors by Sharon Shaloo 11. Selling Wharton by Gary Totten 12. Serialization by Elsa Nettels 13. Short story markets by Bonnie Shannon McMullen Part IV. Arts and Aesthetics 14. Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction by John Dennis Anderson 15. Wharton's writings on screen by Anne-Marie Evans 16. Visual arts by Emily J. Orlando 17. Architecture by Cecilia Macheski 18. Interior and garden design by Helena Chance 19. Images of Wharton by Katherine Joslin Part V. Social Designs 20. The marriage market by Pamela Knights 21. Leisured lives by Maureen E. Montgomery 22. Wharton and gender by Linda Wagner-Martin 23. Race and imperialism by Margaret Toth 24. Social transitions by Adam Jabbur Part VI. Time and Place 25. Wharton and France by William Blazek 26. Wharton and Italy by Robin Peel 27. Wharton and World War I by Julie Olin-Ammentorp 28. The 1920s by Gail D. Sinclair 29. Wharton and the Great Depression by Carol J. Singley Part VII. Literary Milieux 30. Literary influences by Judith P. Saunders 31. Wharton and the American romantics by Linda Costanzo Cahir 32. The novel of manners by Cecilia Macheski 33. Naturalism by Donna Campbell 34. Modernism by Jennifer Haytock. Seller Inventory # EI-R3PP-5P0V
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