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The New Edith Wharton Studies (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions)

The New Edith Wharton Studies (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions)

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Cambridge University Press, 12/19/2019
EAN 9781108422697, ISBN10: 1108422691

Hardcover, 276 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America's most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton's treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author's archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton's life and career.

1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray
Part I. Self and Composition
2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler
3. Wharton's letters
glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp
4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead
Part II. International Wharton
5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou
6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard
7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell
Part III. Wharton on the Margins
8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray
9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis
10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan
11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock
Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited
12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten
13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin
14. Masculine modernity
fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson
15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.