Pastoral Cosmopolitanism In Edith Whartons Fiction

Author : Margarida Cadima
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839988444
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction written by Margarida Cadima and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.” This book pushes against the grain of critical orthodoxy by prioritizing other “species of spaces” in Wharton’s work. For example, how do Wharton’s narratives represent the organic profusion of external nature? Does the current scholarly fascination with the environmental humanities reveal previously unexamined or overlooked facets of Wharton’s craft? I propose that what is most striking about her narrative practice is how she utilizes, adapts, and translates pastoral tropes, conventions, and concerns to twentieth-century American actualities. It is no accident that Wharton portrays characters returning to, or exploring, various natural localities, such as private gardens, public parks, chic mountain resorts, monumental ruins, or country-estate “follies.” Such encounters and adventures prompt us to imagine new relationships with various geographies and the lifeforms that can be found there. The book addresses a knowledge gap in Wharton and the environmental humanities, especially recent debates in ecocriticism. The excavation of Wharton's words and the background of her narratives with an eye to offering an ecocritical reading of her work is what the book focuses on.

Author : Meredith Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813051772
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism written by Meredith Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism' explores Edith Wharton's relation to the concept of cosmopolitanism, as it extended toward her politics, her aesthetics, and her vision of cultural differences. Essays explore Wharton's cosmopolitan ideas and ideals, influences such as American art historian Charles Eliot Norton; her attitudes toward transatlanticism and globalization; and her art-historical discoveries in Europe.

Author : Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527529215
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature written by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers various perspectives on inclusive and exclusive societies and the factors involving categorization of people in dystopic and utopic novels and poems, with a particular emphasis on religion. The theme is tackled from different points of views by the various authors, whose contributions focus on American, British, European, and Eastern literature. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative literature, American literature, and British literature, and those who study religion or a variety of interdisciplinary subjects.

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646123
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Carol J. Singley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Home written by Edith Wharton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Coming Home" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Blake Nevius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Blake Nevius and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985138131
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Custom of the Country written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially-naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a member of an old New York family that no longer enjoys significant wealth.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473394244
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Valley of Decision - A Novel written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains Edith Wharton's first serious novel, "The Valley of Decision". Within this text Wharton juxtaposes characters inspired by the anti-religious writings of Voltaire and Rousseau with the orthodox leaders of the day. As in many of Wharton's writings, it becomes evident that violation of societal conventions comes at a great personal cost. This seminal piece of literature would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is a must-have for fans and collectors of Wharton's work. Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was an American novelist and short story writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature numerous times. The chapters of this book include: "The Old Order", "The New Light", "The Choice", and "The Reward". Wharton was famous for combing her inside view of America's upper classes with her fabulous wit to construct amusing novels and short stories of social and psychological exploration - and we are proud to republish this vintage classic. It comes in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542760577
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Custom of the Country. Novel By. Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It is centered on Undine Spragg, a social upstart who goes up the social ladder through marriage and divorce and remarriage, many times anew. Wavering between the Romantic and the Realist canons, the novel nevertheless follows in the wake of the literary tradition of the money-novel. It was written by Edith Wharton at a time when she herself was going through a divorce. She had, however, started writing the novel as early as Spring 1908 when she had completed six chapters

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715760335
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Custom of the Country (Esprios Classics) written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.