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Studies in American Humor
More editionsHelen Killoran, Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1 995. See chapter one. 11. Adeline Tintner, "Edith Wharton and Paul Bourget," paper presented to the Edith Wharton Society, Washington, D.C., ...
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Early ...
More editions... Kathy A Fedorko, Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton (1995); Carol Singley, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (1995); Jenni Dyman, Lurking Feminism: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1996); Helen Killoran.
Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion
Katherine Joslinam grateful to the curator of costumes and textiles, Phyllis Magidson, who has designed exhibits of the fashions described in Wharton's novels. David Dashiell, director of publications at the Edith Wharton Restoration, gave me good advice ...
Research Guide to American Literature
Benjamin FranklinBibliography Helen Killoran, The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2001). Analyzes the evolution of the critical response to Wharton's writing. Criticism Harold Bloom, ed., Edith Wharton's The Age of ...
The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton
Helen KilloranA fresh look at the plethora of literary criticism on Edith Wharton.
Amerikastudien
More editionsBerlin Frank Mehring Helen Killoran, The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton ( Rochester, NY: Camden, 2001), 184 pp. The critical reception of Edith Wharton's work opens extremely interesting perspectives on canon formation. Wharton ...
Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion
Helen KilloranThis book uses traditional methods to show that Edith Wharton's learning in literature and the fine arts was unusually masterful, that she applied her knowledge to create new models of literary allusion, and that in her work she planted ...
Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews
James W. TuttletonThis book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Edith Wharton from the 1890s until her death in 1937.
HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
More editionsEdith Warton and the Issue of Race Agnes Zsofia Kovacs Kassanoff, Jennie A. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. 226 pages. Jennie A. Kassanoff s Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race discusses the diverse ...
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
Millicent BellThis volume of essays offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new ...
SIROW: newsletter of the Southwest Institute for Research on ...
More editionsLurking Feminism: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Jenni Dyman (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1996) explores Edith Wharton's legacy as a writer of supernatural fiction through her subversive use of the ghost story to express feminist ...
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
Emily J. OrlandoAn insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Casebook
Preview'The House of Mirth' is perhaps Edith Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches.
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit
Carol J. SingleyFocusing on Wharton's treatment of Anglicanism, Calvinism, Transcendentalism, and Catholicism, Carol Singley analyzes the short stories and seven novels in the light of religious and philosophical developments in Wharton's life and fiction.
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
PreviewEssays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
Edith Wharton
Hermione LeeBridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and ...
Sarah Way ShermanFor a complete list ofbooks available in this series, see www.upne.com Sarah Way Sherman, Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Kimberly Wahl, Dressed as in a Painting: Women ...
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Jennie A. KassanoffKassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers
PreviewWhitman, Wharton, and the Sexuality in Summer ABBY H. P. WERLOCK There is a fine line," said Edith Wharton after writing a poem in 1902, "between prose and poetry, and I do not yet think I have ever crossed it." In fact, as R. W. B. Lewis ...
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
PreviewNancy Bentley's The Ethnography of Manners (1995), Amy Kaplan's The Social Construction of American Realism (1988), and Jeannie Kassanoff's Edith Wharton and the Politics ofRace (2003) all approach Wharton's fiction as social practice ...
Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four ...
Juliana SchiesariThe term lurking feminism was rst applied to Wharton's work by Blake Nevius in his classic Edith Wharton: A Study of Her Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953), 185, and has been reenergized by Jenni Dyman in her Lurking ...
Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction ...
Robin PeelIt locates Wharton in her period, surrounded as she was by discourses which called for political and social change, change which an outlook that Peel calls "American Toryism" made her reluctant to embrace.
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and ...
PreviewFor critical discussion of houses and interiors in Wharton's work, see Judith Fryer (Felicitous Space), Amy Kaplan (Social Construction of American Realism), Maureen Montgomery, Lori Merish, John Clubbe, Christopher Gair, Keiko Beppu, ...
The Arizona Quarterly
More editions... Spring 1997 Copyright © 1997 by Arizona Board of Regents issn 0004- 1 6 10 compact trilogy with the lesser-known novel that links them, Wharton's JENNIE A. KASSANOFF JENNIE A KASSANOFF Corporate Thinking: Edith Wharton's Fruit ...
Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art
PreviewKassanoff, Jeannie. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. King James Bible Online, 2014. http://www. kingjamesbibleonline.org/. Luria, Sarah. “The Architecture of Manners: Henry James, Edith ...
The Underwriting
Michelle Miller"A digital-age Edith Wharton . . . hilarious, exhilarating, and so, so clever.
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