Edith Wharton in Context (Literature in Context)

Laura Rattray, Pamela Knights, Melanie Dawson, Sharon Kehl Califano, Susan Goodman, Heidi M. Kunz, Linda De Roche, Melissa M. Pennell, Jessica Schubert McCarthy, Sharon Shaloo, Gary Totten, Elsa Nettels, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, John Dennis Anderson, Anne-Marie Evans, Emily J. Orlando, Cecilia Macheski, Helena Chance, Katherine Joslin, Maureen E. Montgomery, Linda Wagner-Martin, Margaret Toth, Adam Jabbur, William Blazek, Robin Peel, Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Gail D. Sinclair, Carol J. Singley, Judith P. Saunders, Linda Costanzo Cahir, Donna Campbell and Jennifer Haytock

ISBN 10: 1107010195 / ISBN 13: 9781107010192

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edith Wharton in Context (Literature in Context)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107010195
• ISBN 13: 9781107010192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 24.13H x 3.18D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 24.13 centimeters height by 3.18 centimeters depth
• Weight: 700 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.