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Zusatztext Through invigorated theoretical frameworks that cross disciplines, Orlando’s contributors effectively draw attention to the wide range of complexities and complications that Wharton’s works reveal in both content and method. A multi-gifted Wharton shines brightly here. Informationen zum Autor Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University, USA. Vorwort Bringing together leading scholars from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton is a new collection of critical essays on the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing on her life, copious writings, cultural influences, and lasting impact. Zusammenfassung Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Dale M. Bauer Foreword Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler 1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies Emily J. Orlando Part One Edith Wharton and Identity 2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep Meredith L. Goldsmith 3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane’s Closet Shannon Brennan 4 Picturing Edith Wharton’s Modern Woman: Gender and the Social Construction of Age Melanie V. Dawson 5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree , The Shadow of a Doubt , and Ethan Frome Maria-Novella Mercuri Part Two Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel 6 “Social Order and Individual Appetites”: Edith Wharton’s Short Stories, 1891...
