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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 ...
Small Town South
David WhartonDavid Wharton traveled with his camera and unique vision to the small towns of the American South and created amazing images that evoke a Zen-like stillness amid the visual tension of a rapidly changing townscape. the photographs in Small ...
Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers
Emily Wharton SinklerCopies of letters written by Emily Wharton Sinkler (1823-1875) to her parents, Thomas Wharton (1791-1856) and Arabella Griffith (1800-1866), and other family members in Philadelphia regarding life with her husband, Charles Sinkler, on ...
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 ...
ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS, THIRTEEN VOLUMES
ReadWilliam Stoker. John M'Laine. January 1 825 : Ambrose Leet. John M'Laine. George Wharton. David M'Cleery. January 1 826 Ambrose Leet. George Wharton . David M'Cleery. William Stoker. January 1827 : Ambrose Leet. George Wharton.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton
Helen KilloranA fresh look at the plethora of literary criticism on Edith Wharton.
House Of Mirth
Janet BeerIn 2004, JennieA. Kassanoff published the first booklength studyof Wharton and race, takingasher starting pointthe critical 'neutralisation' ofEdith Wharton's conservative politics andher 'protection' by certain scholars from suggestions ofracist ...
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 ...
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
David Wharton LloydThis southern county has a splendidly varied range of fine buildings.
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.
Teaching analysis of film language
David WhartonA clear and easy to use guide for introducing the key areas in filmmaking to the classroom.
Biomedical Applications of Mesoporous Ceramics: Drug ...
María Vallet-RegíAshley, Carlee E., Eric C. Carnes, Katharine E. Epler, David P. Padilla, Genevieve K. Phillips, Robert E. Castillo, Dan C. ... Jason L. Townson, Bryce Chackerian, Cheryl L. Willman, David S. Peabody, Walker Wharton, and C. Jeffrey Brinker.
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 ...
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