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Author Singley, Carol J

Title Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
Published Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Historical Guides to American Authors
Historical guides to American authors.
Contents Abbreviations; Introduction; Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: A Brief Biography; WHARTON IN HER TIME; Wharton's Women: In Fashion, In History, Out of Time; Emerson, Darwin, and The Custom of the Country; Wharton's ""Others"": Addiction and Intimacy; Wharton, Travel, and Modernity; Wharton and Art; Wharton and the Age of Film; Illustrated Chronology; Bibliographical Essay: Visions and Revisions of Wharton; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary Introduction 1. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: A Brief Biography, Shari Benstock 2. Edith Wharton in Her Time 3. Wharton's Women: In Fashion, In History, Out of Time, Martha Banta 4. Emerson, Darwin, and The Custom of the Country, Cecelia Tichi 5. Wharton's ""Others"": Addiction and Intimacy, Dale M. Bauer 6. Wharton, Travel, and Modernity, Nancy Bentley 7. Wharton and Art, Eleanor Dwight 8. Wharton and the Age of Film, Linda Costanzo Cahir 9. Illustrated Chronology 10. Bibliographic Essay: Visions and Revisions of Wharton, Clare Colquitt Contributors Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index
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Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Knowledge -- History
SUBJECT Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 fast
Subject Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
History
Literature and history
Women and literature
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002034613
ISBN 0199727333
9780199727339