The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Emily Orlando.
• Editors: Orlando, Emily
• Contents: 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 aDoubt, 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 CountryFrancesca 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary reference works; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literary Criticism -- Women Authors; Literary Criticism -- Reference; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350182950; 1350182958
• Related ISBNs: 9781350182936
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