Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Whartons Fiction - The World Is a Welter

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. GARDENS, Chapter 1. The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden; Chapter 2. American Back Grounds; Chapter 3. Garden "Haunts"; Chapter 4. Central Park as an "Ecological Threshold"?; Chapter 5. French Gardens and Their Meaning; PART II. MOUNTAINS, Chapter 6. "Endless Plays of Mountain Forms": Mapping the Mountains; Chapter 7. Edith Wharton's European Mountains of Leisure; Chapter 8. Rural Americana and the "New World" Mountains; PART III. RUIN/ATION Chapter 9. Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton's Sedimented Vision ; Chapter 10. "Old" Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire; Chapter 11. Stony Waste-The "New Ruin" in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Spring in a French Riviera Garden; Appendix 2: December in a French Rivera Garden; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Margarida Cadima is an ecocriticism scholar and an adjunct professor in the English Writing, Literature, and Publishing department at The American University of Rome. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2021.

Summary

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

Product details

• Authors: Margarida Cadima
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781839988431
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-843-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures; Anthem Studies in Global Engli
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Literary theory, palimpsest--a "parchment"