Edith Wharton''s the Custom of the Country - A Reassessment

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.

List of contents

Introduction, Laura Rattray; Chapter 1 The Custom of the Country, Susan Goodman; Chapter 2 When the Reading Had to Stop, Shafquat Towheed; Chapter 3 'Don't Cry – It ain't that Kind of a Story', Bonnie Shannon McMullen; Chapter 4 Worst Parents Ever, Carol J. Singley; Chapter 5 Crude Ascending the Staircase, Emily J. Orlando; Chapter 6 'It's Better to Watch', Jessica Schubert McCarthy; Chapter 7 A 'Mist of Opopanax', Pamela Knights; Chapter 8 Landscape with the Fall of Undine, Margaret P. Murray; Chapter 9 Girls from the Provinces, Julie Olin-Ammentorp; Chapter 10 Men at Work in The Custom of the Country, William Blazek; Chapter 11 'Lost in Translation', Hildegard Hoeller; Notes Notes, Laura Rattray;

About the author

Laura Rattray

Product details

• Authors: Laura Rattray
• Assisted by: Laura Rattray (Editor), Rattray Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138663206
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66320-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Gender and Genre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies