Edith Wharton's social register
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Edith Wharton's social register
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000
- : uk
- : us
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her world in binary terms of belonging and exile, of spatial boundaries and exclusions, and tribal behaviour. She applied that intellectual framework to the struggle to preserve the Old World from the territorial and cultural threat of the Great War. In linked thematic sections, Claire Preston considers ideas of tribal inclusion and banishment, buccaneer figures whose money-energy overcomes tribal demarcations, and expatriatism, the self-imposed mode of exile which fed Wharton's apparently chilly empiricism and was the origin of some of her most important work. She suggests that, against the claims of realism, Wharton should in fact be included in the early Modernist canon.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface with Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRIBES The Force of Negation The Deaf and Dumb Asylum Boundaries and Bounders Men at Work Image of Snow: Whartonian Womanhood Libraries and Studies: Where Real Things Happen to Men PART TWO: OUTCASTS Wharton's Social Darwinism Maps of Exclusion Rituals of Casting Out Reconditioned Malefactors PART THREE: BUCCANEERS Product Placement Buccaneers Exploit and Industry: the Elmer Epic The Steep of Disenchantment 'Beyond' Epic Effrontery The Bareness of a Small Half-lit Place The Firebird and the Watersprite PART FOUR: EXPATRIATES The Lesson of the Master: James and Wharton outre-mer Home Thoughts from Abroad: America and Americanity Plunder: Buccaneers go to Europe When They Die 'Did You Ever See Anything So French?': Assimilators Children of Flanders: How the War Made Europe a Real Place Bibliography Index
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