Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race write by Jennie A. Kassanoff. This book was released on 2004-09-16. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race write by Jennie Ann Kassanoff. This book was released on 2004. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm an American elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through an engagement with these controversial views.
Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics
Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics write by Dale M. Bauer. This book was released on 1994. Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and aesthetically inferior. In Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics, Dale M. Bauer overturns these traditional conclusions. She shows that Wharton's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, to authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications.
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton write by Millicent Bell. This book was released on 1995-06-30. The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism write by Emily Josephine Orlando. This book was released on 2016. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton's engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works."--Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors Ferd Asya - William Blazek - Rita Bode - Donna Campbell - Mary Carney - Clare Virginia Eby - June Howard - Meredith L. Goldsmith - Sharon Kim - D. Medina Lasansky - Maureen Montgomery - Emily J. Orlando - Margaret A. Toth - Gary Totten
