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1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
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Includes filmography: pages 175-180. |
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Introduction: A glittering place -- Charm incorporated : the short fiction -- The mechanical terror : the novels -- Going Hollywood : the thirties -- Wharton in bloom : the nineties -- Conclusion: Another country. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Edith Wharton (1862- 1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as an enemy of the imagination. Yet her fiction often referenced film and popular Hollywood culture, and she even sold the rights to several of her novels to Hollywood studios. Edith Wharton on Film explores these seeming contradictions and examines the relationships among Wharton' s writings, the popular culture in which she published them, and the sub. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Film adaptations.
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Film adaptations.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Knowledge and learning -- Art.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. |
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American fiction -- Film adaptations.
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American fiction -- Film adaptations. |
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Visual perception in literature.
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Visual perception in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations.
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Art.
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Print version: Boswell, Parley Ann. Edith Wharton on film. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2007 9780809327577 0809327570 (DLC) 2006102592 (OCoLC)77494486 |
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9781435663459 (electronic book) |
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1435663454 (electronic book) |
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9780809387465 |
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0809387468 |
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9780809327577 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0809327570 |
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