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Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.: Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton by Millicent Bell (1995, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521453585

ISBN-139780521453585

eBay Product ID (ePID)834816

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameCambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

SubjectAmerican / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorMillicent Bell

SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN94-034704

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813.5/2

Table Of ContentChronology of Wharton's life; Introduction: a critical history Millicent Bell; 1. The social subject in The Age of Innocence Pamela Knights; 2. Edith Wharton and the science of manners Nancy Bentley; 3. Edith Wharton and race Elizabeth Ammons; 4. The Custom of the Country: Spragg and the art of the deal Elaine Showalter; 5. The female conscience in Wharton's shorter fiction Gloria C. Erlich; 6. Law language and ritual in Summer Rhonda Skillern; 7. The House of Mirth: the bachelor and the baby Maureen Howard; 8. The Fruit of the Tree: Justine and the perils of abstract idealism James W. Tuttleton; 9. The Valley of Decision: Edith Wharton's Italian mask William L. Vance; 10. Edith Wharton's Valley of Decision: a rediscovered contemporary critique Vernon Lee; Bibliography; Index.

SynopsisThe 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., The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement., This volume of essays offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. Written by a mix of established commentators on Wharton and newer scholars in the field, the essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism; a detailed chronology of her life and publications and a useful bibliography of important books for further reading are also provided.

LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16 Z636 1995