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The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton // edited by Millicent Bell.
other author:	Bell, Millicent,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Subject:	Women and literature - History - 20th century. - United States -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521453585
ISBN:	9781139000208 (ebook)

The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton /
The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton /edited by Millicent Bell. - 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge companions to literature. - Cambridge companions to literature..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Introduction : a critical history / Millicent Bell -- The social subject in The age of innocence / Pamela Knights -- Edith Wharton and the science of manners / Nancy Bentley -- Edith Wharton and race / Elizabeth Ammons -- The custom of the country : Spragg and the art of the deal / Elaine Showalter -- The female conscience in Wharton's shorter fiction / Gloria C. Erlich -- Law, language, and ritual in Summer / Rhonda Skillern -- The house of mirth : the bachelor and the baby / Maureen Howard -- The fruit of the tree : Justine and the perils of abstract idealism / James W. Tuttleton -- The valley of decision : Edith Wharton's Italian mask / William L. Vance -- Edith Wharton's Valley of decision : a rediscovered contemporary critique / Vernon Lee.

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.

ISBN: 9781139000208 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

879092
Wharton, Edith,
1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

558084
Women and literature
--History--United States--20th century.

LC Class. No.: PS3545.H16 / Z636 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.52

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