The new Edith Wharton studies
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The new Edith Wharton studies
（Twenty-first century critical revisions）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index
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Description
The New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America's most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton's treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author's archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton's life and career.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray
- Part I. Self and Composition: 2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler
- 3. Wharton's letters: glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp
- 4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead
- Part II. International Wharton: 5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou
- 6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard
- 7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell
- Part III. Wharton on the Margins: 8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray
- 9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis
- 10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan
- 11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock
- Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited: 12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten
- 13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin
- 14. Masculine modernity: fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson
- 15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.
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