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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton; Edith Wharton |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Katherine Joslin; Alan Price |
| ISBN: | 0820422231 9780820422237 |
| OCLC Number: | 27770046 |
| Description: | ix, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Landscapes of desire: Edith Wharton and Europe / Shari Benstock -- Edith Wharton's inner circle / Susan Goodman -- Edith Wharton in France / Millicent Bell -- Can France survive this defender? Contemporary American reaction to Wharton's expatriation / Kristin Olson Lauer -- The salons of Wharton's fiction: Wharton and Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and Stein / Robert A. Martin and Linda Wagner-Martin -- Edith Wharton's discriminations: Eurotrash and European treasures / Carol Wershsoven -- Making it her own: Edith Wharton's Europe / Shirley Foster -- Edith Wharton and the dog-eared travel book / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Pathways to a personal aesthetic: Edith Wharton's travels in Italy and France / Maureen E. St. Laurent -- Aesthetics and ideology in Italian backgrounds / Brigitte Bailey --Mapping the contours of a forgotten land: Edith Wharton and Spain / Teresa Gomez Reus. Wharton mobilizes artists to aid the War homeless / Alan Price -- "Behind the lines" in Edith Wharton's A son at the front: Re-writing a masculinist tradition / Judith L. Sensibar -- Lily Bart and Masquerade inscribed in the female mode / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- Wharton through a Kristevan lens: the maternality of The gods arrive / Julie Olin-Ammentorp -- Edith Wharton's case of Roman fever / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- "Fleeing the Sewer": Edith Wharton, George Sand, and literary innovation / Katherine Joslin -- Edith Wharton: she thought in French and wrote in English / Roger Asselineau -- Edith Wharton's Reading in European languages and its influence on her work / Helen Killoran. |
| Series Title: | American university studies., Series XXIV,, American literature ;, vol. 53. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Katherine Joslin and Alan Price. |
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