| Description |
ix, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature,
0895-0512 ;
vol. 53
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American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature ; v. 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-403) and index. |
| Contents |
Landscapes of desire: Edith Wharton and Europe / Shari Benstock -- Edith Wharton's inner circle / Susan Goodman -- Edith Wharton in France / Millicent Bell -- Can France survive this defender? Contemporary American reaction to Wharton's expatriation / Kristin Olson Lauer -- The salons of Wharton's fiction: Wharton and Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and Stein / Robert A. Martin and Linda Wagner-Martin -- Edith Wharton's discriminations: Eurotrash and European treasures / Carol Wershsoven -- Making it her own: Edith Wharton's Europe / Shirley Foster -- Edith Wharton and the dog-eared travel book / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Pathways to a personal aesthetic: Edith Wharton's travels in Italy and France / Maureen E. St. Laurent -- Aesthetics and ideology in Italian backgrounds / Brigitte Bailey --Mapping the contours of a forgotten land: Edith Wharton and Spain / Teresa Gomez Reus. |
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Wharton mobilizes artists to aid the War homeless / Alan Price -- "Behind the lines" in Edith Wharton's A son at the front: Re-writing a masculinist tradition / Judith L. Sensibar -- Lily Bart and Masquerade inscribed in the female mode / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- Wharton through a Kristevan lens: the maternality of The gods arrive / Julie Olin-Ammentorp -- Edith Wharton's case of Roman fever / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- "Fleeing the Sewer": Edith Wharton, George Sand, and literary innovation / Katherine Joslin -- Edith Wharton: she thought in French and wrote in English / Roger Asselineau -- Edith Wharton's Reading in European languages and its influence on her work / Helen Killoran. |
| Subject |
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Knowledge and learning -- Europe.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. |
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Europe. |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Travel -- Europe.
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Travel. |
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
American fiction -- European influences.
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American fiction -- European influences. |
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American fiction. |
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Americans -- Europe -- Biography.
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Americans. |
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Europe -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Joslin, Katherine, 1947-
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Price, Alan, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0820422231 alkaline paper |
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