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

Informationen zum Autor Laura Rattray Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Laura Rattray, Laura (EDT) Rattray
• Assisted by: Rattray Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9781851962242
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-224-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender and Genre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000