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.
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Written by established commentators as well as newer scholars, this volume of essays offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction. It is geared to the interests of the student or general reader encountering the author for the first time as well as advanced scholars looking for new insights.
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In 1921, excited by news of a plan to stage The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton responded immediately with proprietarial advice about getting the 1870s right-the moustaches ("not tooth brush ones, but curved & slightly twisted at the ends"), the clothes and the buttonhole flowers (violets by day, gardenias by night), the manners and the language (no slang, no Americanisms-"English was then the language spoken by American ladies & gentlemen"). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Edith Wharton, Lily Bart, The Age of Innocence, North Dormer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Charity Royall, United States, The Valley of Decision, Henry James, Library of America, The Custom of the Country, Vernon Lee, New England, Newland Archer, Elizabeth Ammons, Ellen Olenska, Lucius Harney, Oxford University Press, Elmer Moffatt, Lucretia Jones, The Touchstone, William James, Becky Sharp, Fifth Avenue New!
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In 1921, excited by news of a plan to stage The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton responded immediately with proprietarial advice about getting the 1870s right-the moustaches ("not tooth brush ones, but curved & slightly twisted at the ends"), the clothes and the buttonhole flowers (violets by day, gardenias by night), the manners and the language (no slang, no Americanisms-"English was then the language spoken by American ladies & gentlemen"). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Edith Wharton, Lily Bart, The Age of Innocence, North Dormer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Charity Royall, United States, The Valley of Decision, Henry James, Library of America, The Custom of the Country, Vernon Lee, New England, Newland Archer, Elizabeth Ammons, Ellen Olenska, Lucius Harney, Oxford University Press, Elmer Moffatt, Lucretia Jones, The Touchstone, William James, Becky Sharp, Fifth Avenue New!
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- The Age Of Innocence (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom on 27 pages
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton on 27 pages
- Edith Wharton: A Biography by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis on 24 pages
- The Valley Of Decision by Edith Wharton on 15 pages
- The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton on 5 pages
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- The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jill M. Kress on 10 pages
- A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (Historical Guides to American Authors) by Carol J. Singley on 6 pages
- Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception: Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Paul J. Ohler on 4 pages
- Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Kimberly Freeman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Student Companion to Edith Wharton (Student Companions to Classic Writers) by Melissa McFarland Pennell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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