The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18293-6 (ISBN)
Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider:
- Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics;
- Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose;
- Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather;
-The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco;
- Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities.
Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.
Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University, USA.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Dale M. Bauer
Foreword
Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler
1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies
Emily J. Orlando
Part One Edith Wharton and Identity
2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith
Wharton’s Twilight Sleep
Meredith L. Goldsmith
3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane’s Closet Shannon Brennan
4 Picturing Edith Wharton’s Modern Woman: Gender and the Social
Construction of Age
Melanie V. Dawson
5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree, The Shadow of a
Doubt, and Ethan Frome
Maria-Novella Mercuri
Part Two Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel
6 “Social Order and Individual Appetites”: Edith Wharton’s Short Stories, 1891-1904
Paul J. Ohler
7 Edith Wharton in Verse
Emily Setina
8 Edith Wharton and Film
Donna M. Campbell
Part Three Influences and Intertextualities
9 “The Chill Joy of Renunciation”: Feminine Sacrifice in Edith Wharton
and Christina Rossetti
Margaret Jay Jessee
10 Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Beyond “Surface Differences”
Julie Olin-Ammentorp
11 Consciousness in Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Reef
and The Golden Bowl
Jill Kress Karn
Part Four Global and Cultural Contexts
12 Edith Wharton and the Narratives of Travel and Tourism
Gary Totten
13 Seeking a Home for the Wretched Exotics: Edith Wharton’s
Heterotopic Views of Greece
Myrto Drizou
14 “Totally Vanished…Like a Pinch of Dust”: Edith Wharton and
the Trope of Cultural Extinction
Nir Evron
15 Edith Wharton and Pleasure
Virginia Ricard
16 The Mermaid as Capitalist: Networking and Upward Mobility in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country
Francesca Sawaya
Part Five Edith Wharton’s Library
17 Reading the Reader: Edith Wharton’s Library, Digital Methods,
and the Uses of Data
Sheila Liming
18 The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Preparing the First
Authoritative Edition
Carol J. Singley, Donna M. Campbell and Frederick Wegener
Afterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century
Elaine Showalter
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 b/w illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-18293-1 / 1350182931 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-18293-6 / 9781350182936 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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