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Results for 'edith wharton'
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Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing
A Cornucopia of PharmacopoeiaBodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how these texts depict women's efforts to secure bodily autonomy in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social systems.
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Endless Forms
Heredity in American Literature, 1890–1931€ 142,95 -
Edith Wharton
Art and AllusionThis work on Edith Wharton provides fresh readings of such familiar favourites as "The House of Mirth" and "The Age of Innocence" as well as neglected works such as "Twilight Sleep" and "The Glimpses of the Moon".
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Large Print - The Age of Innocence - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Experience timeless classics like never before in this Grand Type Collector's Edition With clear, easy-to-read formatting, this edition is designed for readers who prefer or require larger text without sacrificing the excitement of the original. Large Print Features: 18-point font: Generously sized text for maximum readability and comfort.Sans-serif font: Clean, modern typeface designed to reduce visual strain.Italics are bolded: Important emphasis is maintained without thin, hard-to-see lettering.Easy-to-read line lengths: Shorter rows of text (under 45 characters per line) make reading smoother and less tiring. In the glittering world of New York's Gilded Age, wealth and propriety dictate every choice-but the heart does not always obey. Newland Archer, confidently engaged to the elegant and respectable May Welland, believes he understands his place in society. Everything changes when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman whose independence and scandalous reputation challenge the rigid expectations of their world. Drawn to Ellen's honesty and longing for freedom, Newland begins to question the life set before him. As desire clashes with duty, he must choose between the safe respectability he has always known and the love that could cost him everything. Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence offers a brilliant critique of the social constraints of Gilded Age New York. Her piercing examination of appearances, conformity, and forbidden emotion earned her the Pulitzer Prize-the first awarded to a woman. Today, the novel endures as a powerful exploration of love, sacrifice, and the price of restraint.
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The Age of Innocence (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
In New York's high society, a man torn between duty and forbidden love must choose between the life he's expected to live and the passion he can't ignore.
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Women and the Travel Guidebook, 1870-c.1910
While a limited number of studies have identified a small number of female-authored guidebooks, this is the first to take a broad view of women’s place within the guidebook market, situating female-authored texts within a large and competitive book market to understand the role of gender in guidebook publication.
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Edith Wharton
A Study of Her FictionBlake Nevius was Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Writing Against Reform
Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive EraExamining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America’s leading writers.
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Writing Against Reform
Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive EraExamining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America’s leading writers.
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Edith Wharton and Genre
Beyond FictionSo much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form.
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No Place in Time
The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureExamines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism. Sharon Oster shows how realist authors consequently cast Jews as caught between a distant past and a promising American future.
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Edith Wharton and Genre
Beyond FictionSo much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form.
€ 152,50