A forward glance : new essays on Edith Wharton / edited by Clare Colquitt, Susan Goodman, and Candace Waid.

Other author Colquitt, Clare.
Other author Goodman, Susan, 1951-
Other author Waid, Candace.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©1999.
Description247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents Edith Wharton's composed lives / Susan Goodman -- "Garden talks": the correspondence of Edith Wharton and Beatrix Farrand / Mia Manzulli -- The writer's wardrobe: Wharton cross-dressed / Denise Witzig -- Architectonic or episodic?: gender and The Fruit of the tree / Katherine Joslin -- Erotic visual tropes in the fiction of Edith Wharton / Maureen Honey -- The death of romance: The Portrait of a lady in the age of Lily Bart / Jerome Loving -- Form, "Selection," and ideology in Edith Wharton's antimodernist aesthetic / Frederick Wegener -- Fighting France: travel writing in the grotesque / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Edith Wharton as propagandist and novelist: competing visions of "The Great War" / Judith L. Sensibar -- A "fairy tale every minute": the autobiographical journey and Edith Wharton's In Morocco / Stephanie Batcos -- Wharton, race, and The Age of innocence: three historical contexts / Anne MacMaster -- Edith Wharton's Italian tale: language exercise and social discourse / Gianfranca Balestra -- The children: Wharton's creative ambivalence to self, society, and the "new world" / Ellen Piper.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98042688
ISBN0874136679 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3545.H16 Z6475 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold