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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2010 Routledge hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1) The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly (2) When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country (3) 'Don't Cry - it ain't that Kind of a Story': Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908-12 (4) Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country (5) Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show (6) 'It's Better to Watch': Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth (7) A 'Mist of Opopanax': Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country (8) Landscape with the Fall of Undine (9) Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's The Song of the Lark (10) Men at Work in The Custom of the Country (11) 'Lost in Translation': Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country.…

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.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12° (155x180mm) The complete collection consists of 44 volumes - each volume approx. 22pp and 60 B/w photo-reproductions. The edition consits in: 27 Volumes 1958 to 1966 H. Cartier-Bresson, M. Hak, J. Ruzicka, Int. photography 1958, J. Funke, Nadar, W. Bischof, J. Ehm, V. Reichmann, V. Chochola, P. Strand, Jan Lukas, J. Jenicek, Brassai, Jan Cifra, J. Prosek, E. Atget, K. Kallay, K. Hajek, A. Rodchenko, Int. Photography 1962, E. Wiskovsky, E. Medkova, T. Honty, M. Robinsonova & L. Moholy Nagy. Black covers design by Miroslav Hrbas - 16 Volumes E. Hartwig, D. Seymour "Chim", A. Kertesz, CS fotografie 1965, Jiri Sever, V. Jiru, Sovetska fotografie, Robert Capa, Z. Feyfar, Sovetska filmova fotografie, A. Schneeberger, D. Hochova, J. Eckert, Jan Lauschmann, M. Hucek. White covers designed by Libor Fara and 2 volumes F. Drtikol, A. Stieglitz. Black covers designed by Milan Jaros. Text in Czech, French, German, English and Russian. Original covers (designed by M. Hrbas, L. Fara & M. Jaros) Missing Eva Fukova. In Very good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 440 pages. German language. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.