| Description | | - The first ever volume dedicated solely to historical and cultural aspects of Wharton
- Eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, including essays about cinematic adaptations of Wharton's novels
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Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism,
urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in
the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
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| Contents |
Introduction
1.
Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: A Brief Biography
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Shari Benstock
2.
Edith Wharton in Her Time
3.
Wharton's Women: In Fashion, In History, Out of Time
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Martha Banta
4.
Emerson, Darwin, and The Custom of the Country
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Cecelia Tichi
5.
Wharton's "Others": Addiction and Intimacy
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Dale M. Bauer
6.
Wharton, Travel, and Modernity
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Nancy Bentley
7.
Wharton and Art
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Eleanor Dwight
8.
Wharton and the Age of Film
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Linda Costanzo Cahir
9.
Illustrated Chronology
10.
Bibliographic Essay: Visions and Revisions of Wharton
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Clare Colquitt
Contributors
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Carol J. Singley, Assosiate Professor of English, Rutgers University-Camden
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