Teaching Edith Wharton's major novels and short fiction. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Teaching Edith Wharton's major novels and short fiction. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Teaching Edith Wharton's major novels and short fiction
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Ferdâ Asya.
- Editors:
- Asya, Ferda
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction.- 2. Part I. Culture and History: Chapter 1. Reading in Three Dimensions: Using Material Culture to Teach The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.- 3. Chapter 2. Getting to Know the Community: Using Raymond Williams's Concept of 'Knowable Communities' to Teach Wharton's Summer.- 4. Chapter 3. Using Women Reporting War to Teach Edith Wharton's 'Writing a War Story': An Added Context for Gendered Writing.- 5. Chapter 4. An Argument for Teaching The Marne: A Long Overlooked Example of Wharton's Wartime Writings. - 6. Chapter 5. Historicizing Adaptation: The Age of Innocence in the Context of 1930s Hollywood. - 7. Part II. Wharton and Other Authors: Chapter 1. Survival versus Thriving: Social Mobility in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Edna Ferber's So Big.- 8. Chapter 2. Developing Sympathy: Teaching Edith Wharton's Summer with Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel.- 8. Chapter 3. Teaching Edith Wharton and Henry James in The Netherlands.- 9. Part III. Wharton and Critical Lenses: Chapter 1. 'Granite Outcroppings but Half-Emerged from the Soil': Using Ethan Frome in a Gateway Course for the English Major.- 10. Chapter 2. 'We're near each other only if we stay far from each other': Teaching Psychoanalytic Desire in The Age of Innocence.- 11. Chapter 3. Social Darwinism, Feminism, and Performative Identity in Wharton's 'The Last Asset'.- 12. Chapter 4. Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and the History of Literary Scholarship.- 13. Part IV. Wharton and1. Introduction.- 2. Part I. Culture and History: Chapter 1. Reading in Three Dimensions: Using Material Culture to Teach The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.- 3. Chapter 2. Getting to Know the Community: Using Raymond Williams's Concept of 'Knowable Communities' to Teach Wharton's Summer.- 4. Chapter 3. Using Women Reporting War to Teach Edith Wharton's 'Writing a War Story': An Added Context for Gendered Writing.- 5. Chapter 4. An Argument for Teaching The Marne: A Long Overlooked Example of Wharton's Wartime Writings. - 6. Chapter 5. Historicizing Adaptation: The Age of Innocence in the Context of 1930s Hollywood. - 7. Part II. Wharton and Other Authors: Chapter 1. Survival versus Thriving: Social Mobility in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Edna Ferber's So Big.- 8. Chapter 2. Developing Sympathy: Teaching Edith Wharton's Summer with Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel.- 8. Chapter 3. Teaching Edith Wharton and Henry James in The Netherlands.- 9. Part III. Wharton and Critical Lenses: Chapter 1. 'Granite Outcroppings but Half-Emerged from the Soil': Using Ethan Frome in a Gateway Course for the English Major.- 10. Chapter 2. 'We're near each other only if we stay far from each other': Teaching Psychoanalytic Desire in The Age of Innocence.- 11. Chapter 3. Social Darwinism, Feminism, and Performative Identity in Wharton's 'The Last Asset'.- 12. Chapter 4. Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and the History of Literary Scholarship.- 13. Part IV. Wharton and Interdisciplinary Contexts: Chapter 1. Modeling Addiction: Teaching The House of Mirth in the Context of Addiction Studies.- 14. Chapter 2. Ecoliteracy and Edith Wharton: The Ecosomatic Paradigm and the Poetics of Paratexts in Ethan Frome.- 15. Chapter 3. Teaching Edith Wharton's The Children in The Anarchist Tradition in Literature Course.- 16. Part V. Wharton and the World Today: Chapter 1. Wharton Goes Online: Reimagining the Traditional Graduate Seminar.- 17. Chapter 2. Students Abroad - in the Classroom: A Transatlantic Assignment on Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.- 18. Chapter 3. Slouching toward the Posthuman: Teaching Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 813.52
Literature
Literary Criticism -- American -- General
Literary studies: from c 1900
Literature: history & criticism
Literary Criticism -- General
Literature & literary studies
Literature, Modern--20th century
America--Literatures
Study and teaching
Criticism and interpretation - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030527426
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030527419
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