Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction - 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 Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction write by Margarida Cadima. This book was released on 2023-07-11. Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings - 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 Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings write by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács. This book was released on 2024-09-13. The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The book demonstrates Wharton’s complex relationship to works of art historians (John Ruskin, Émile Mâle, Arthur C. Porter) and travel authors (Wolfgang Goethe, Henry Adams, Henry James) in the trajectory of her travel writing. Kovács surveys how the acknowledgment of Wharton’s sources sheds light both on the author’s model of aesthetic understanding and scenic architectural descriptions, and how the shock of the Great War changed Wharton’s travel destinations but not her symbolic view of architecture as a mediator of things past. Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture provide a new key to her travel writings.
The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature
The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature - 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 Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature write by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi. This book was released on 2023-08-30. The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country - 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 Custom of the Country write by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2018-04-05. The Custom of the Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduction of the original: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Coming Home
Coming Home - 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 Coming Home write by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2022-09-16. Coming Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
