The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
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ISBN | : 9785214851341 |
Author | : Millicent Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521485135 |
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 | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521514703 |
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author | : David Dwan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2012-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107495652 |
Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.
Author | : Cyrus R. K. Patell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825410 |
New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
Author | : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107117143 |
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
Author | : Timothy Parrish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107013135 |
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author | : Pamela Knights |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521687195 |
Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-seller in her time, and is now, again, one of the most widely read American authors. This book provides an accessible and stimulating introduction to Wharton's life and writings, to help map her work for new readers, and to encourage more detailed exploration of her texts and contexts. Suggesting a range of perspectives on her most famous novels - The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920) - it stimulates fresh lines of inquiry, examining these alongside other writings that are now attracting lively critical interest. With its clear structure, illustrations, and guide to further study, this book will form the ideal starting-point for students and for general readers.
Author | : Donald Pizer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521438766 |
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.