Results for 'edith wharton'

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  1. Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
    1. Margarida Cadima

    Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction

    The World is a Welter

    One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

    € 34,50
  2. Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
    1. Margarida Cadima

    Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction

    The World is a Welter

    One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

    € 110,95
  3. Commemorative Modernisms
    1. Alice Kelly

    Commemorative Modernisms

    Women Writers, Death and the First World War

    This book provides the first sustained study of women’s literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.

    € 145,50
  4. Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot
    1. Maya Higashi Wakana

    Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot

    A Microsocial Approach

    Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially.

    € 71,50
  5. Thinking of Others
    1. Ted Cohen

    Thinking of Others

    On the Talent for Metaphor

    Argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity - as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation - and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. This title offers an original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life.

    € 34,50
  6. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    1. Janet Beer

    Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Studies in Short Fiction

    A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared.

    € 124,95
  7. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    1. Janet , Beer

    Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship.

    € 106,50
  8. Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
    1. Janet , Beer

    Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman

    Wharton's late and critically-neglected novels are reclaimed as experimental in form and radical in content in this book, which also suggests that her portrayal of older female characters in her last six novels anticipates contemporary unease about the cultural marginalization of the older woman in Western society.

    € 53,50
  9. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    1. Janet , Beer

    Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship.

    € 106,50
  10. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    1. Janet , Beer

    Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship.

    € 106,50