Student Companion To Edith Wharton
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Author |
: Melissa McFarland Pennell |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2003-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313058196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313058199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Student Companion to Edith Wharton by : Melissa McFarland Pennell
One of the most accomplished American writers of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton achieved both critical recognition and popular acclaim. This Student Companion provides an introduction to Wharton's fiction. Beginning with her life and career, the volume places Wharton in the context of her times, focusing on how she was shaped by the culture of wealth and privilege into which she was born. Her struggle to resist the demands of her social world paralleled her characters' lives and contributed to the power of her writing. Included are an in-depth discussion of her writing, along with analyses of thematic concerns, character development, historical context, and plot. A close critical reading covers each of her major works, with a full chapter devoted to each: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), Summer (1917), The Age of Innocence (1920), and her two novellas, Madame de Treymes (1907) and The Old Maid (1924). Another chapter addresses Wharton's short stories and considers some of her most famous and anthologized tales, such as The Other Two and Roman Fever. This companion is ideal for students who are reading Wharton for the first time, or for general readers who are seeking a greater understanding of her writing. A select bibliography offers suggestions for further reading about Wharton and includes criticism and contemporary reviews of her work.
Author |
: Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher |
: Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2016-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781410359551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1410359557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author |
: Millicent Bell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1995-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521485134 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521485135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton by : Millicent Bell
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.
Author |
: Laura Rattray |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2012-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107310810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107310814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Edith Wharton in Context by : Laura Rattray
Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights.
Author |
: Ferdâ Asya |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2021-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030527426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030527425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction by : Ferdâ Asya
This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.
Author |
: Edith Wharton |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2012-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300169898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300169892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Dear Governess by : Edith Wharton
Presents a treasure trove of 135 letters, written over a period of 42 years, from Edith Wharton to her teacher, considered a great find in the literary world, given that only three letters from the Age of Innocence author's childhood and early adulthood were thought to have survived.
Author |
: James Phelan |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118512890 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118512898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading the American Novel 1920-2010 by : James Phelan
This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform. Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and Freedom Relates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernism Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts
Author |
: Cyrus R. K. Patell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2010-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521514712 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521514711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York by : Cyrus R. K. Patell
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Author |
: Linda De Roche |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2006-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313083853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313083851 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Student Companion to Willa Cather by : Linda De Roche
Willa Cather's elegiac tales of the pioneer experience on the American frontier continue to captivate new generations of readers. Written especially for students, this critical introduction offers insightful yet accessible criticism of Cather's most widely read novels. A full chapter examines each work, with full discussions of character development, thematic concerns, plot, critical reception, and historical contexts. Students will find this book a valuable guide to this great American author. The volume covers such enduring works as Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My D'Antonia, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock. Each chapter is devoted to an individual novel and provides a full discussion of character development, thematic concerns, and plot structure. The introduction to each novel traces its genesis and its critical reception at the time of publication. The historical context sections place Cather's vision of the pioneer spirit and achievement within the context of a rapidly changing America that was in the process of abandoning its traditional values and thus risking its source of greatness. Students will find this book a valuable guide to Cather's works.
Author |
: Wisam Abughosh Chaleila |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2020-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000328189 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100032818X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction by : Wisam Abughosh Chaleila
"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear. This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying in great detail the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deeply in both fictional and real personas, whether they are characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm. Though history is taught, it is not so thoroughly examined. To our misfortune, we naively think that bigoted ideas are not a thing we could become afflicted with. They are antiques from the past – yet they possessed many hundreds of people and they surround us still. Since we’ve experienced very little change, it seems discipline is necessary to truly attempt to be rid of these ideas.