Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Meredith L Goldsmith

ISBN 10: 0813062810 / ISBN 13: 9780813062815

Published by Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Sep 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, was also a transnational author who cultivated contradictory approaches to identity, difference, and belonging. As literary studies continue to expand beyond nation-based topics, readers are becoming more interested in the international scope of her life and writing.Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton s diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
• Publisher: Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Sep 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813062810
• ISBN 13: 9780813062815
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 21D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 617 grams

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Synopsis

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing

Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism.

This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.

About the Authors

Meredith L. Goldsmith, professor of English at Ursinus College, is coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s and American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity.

Emily J. Orlando, professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair at Fairfield University, is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton and the annotated edition of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses.