| Description |
247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Edith Wharton's composed lives / Susan Goodman -- "Garden talks": the correspondence of Edith Wharton and Beatrix Farrand / Mia Manzulli -- The writer's wardrobe: Wharton cross-dressed / Denise Witzig -- Architectonic or episodic?: gender and The Fruit of the tree / Katherine Joslin -- Erotic visual tropes in the fiction of Edith Wharton / Maureen Honey -- The death of romance: The Portrait of a lady in the age of Lily Bart / Jerome Loving -- Form, "Selection," and ideology in Edith Wharton's antimodernist aesthetic / Frederick Wegener -- Fighting France: travel writing in the grotesque / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Edith Wharton as propagandist and novelist: competing visions of "The Great War" / Judith L. Sensibar -- A "fairy tale every minute": the autobiographical journey and Edith Wharton's In Morocco / Stephanie Batcos -- Wharton, race, and The Age of innocence: three historical contexts / Anne MacMaster -- Edith Wharton's Italian tale: language exercise and social discourse / Gianfranca Balestra -- The children: Wharton's creative ambivalence to self, society, and the "new world" / Ellen Piper. |
| Subject |
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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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Colquitt, Clare.
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Goodman, Susan, 1951-
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Waid, Candace.
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| ISBN |
0874136679 alkaline paper |
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