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The New Edith Wharton Studies

Hardback

Main Details

Title The New Edith Wharton Studies
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jennifer Haytock
Edited by Laura Rattray
SeriesTwenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:276
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 161
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781108422697
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 December 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Jennifer Haytock is the author of At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003), Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008), The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women's Novels in the 1930s (2013), and The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018). Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature and Director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her work on Wharton includes Edith Wharton in Context (Cambridge, 2012), The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton (2009) and the Oxford World Classics edition of Summer (2015).

Reviews

'... the best of these essays point toward a rejuvenation of the old in ways that allow Wharton fans to gain a deeper understanding of this complex and often misunderstood woman and artist.' S. Batcos, Choice