Student Companion To Edith Wharton

Author : Melissa McFarland Pennell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058199
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Student Companion to Edith Wharton written by Melissa McFarland Pennell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most accomplished American writers of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton achieved both critical recognition and popular acclaim. This Student Companion provides an introduction to Wharton's fiction. Beginning with her life and career, the volume places Wharton in the context of her times, focusing on how she was shaped by the culture of wealth and privilege into which she was born. Her struggle to resist the demands of her social world paralleled her characters' lives and contributed to the power of her writing. Included are an in-depth discussion of her writing, along with analyses of thematic concerns, character development, historical context, and plot. A close critical reading covers each of her major works, with a full chapter devoted to each: The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), Summer (1917), The Age of Innocence (1920), and her two novellas, Madame de Treymes (1907) and The Old Maid (1924). Another chapter addresses Wharton's short stories and considers some of her most famous and anthologized tales, such as The Other Two and Roman Fever. This companion is ideal for students who are reading Wharton for the first time, or for general readers who are seeking a greater understanding of her writing. A select bibliography offers suggestions for further reading about Wharton and includes criticism and contemporary reviews of her work.

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139000208
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton written by Millicent Bell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook provides fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed to engage the interest of both students and general readers."--[Source inconnue].

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ISBN 13 : 9785214851341
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410359557
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485135
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton written by Millicent Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195135903
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton written by Carol J. Singley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various authors focus on life and works of Edith Wharton, on her women in fashion, in history, out of time, addiction and intimacy, travel, and modernity, art, the age of film. The book contains an illustrated chronology and a bibliographical essay.

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107310814
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton in Context written by Laura Rattray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights.

Author : Ferdâ Asya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030527425
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction written by Ferdâ Asya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410319997
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375397568
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.