Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made av...
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Edith Wharton's Social Register
Preston C. · ISBN 9780312225575
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti sidottu
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her w...
Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Consciousness
Evelyn E Fracasso · ISBN 9780313291555
Julkaistu 1994 Kieli englanti sidottu
The metaphor of life as prison obsessed Edith Wharton, and, consequently, the theme of imprisonment appears in most of her 86 short stories. In the last several decades, critica...
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
Suzanne J. Fournier · ISBN 9780313333101
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
A patrician who wrote most often of the fashionable 19th-century New York society she knew so well, Edith Wharton was inspired to write the novel Ethan Frome after spending summ...
19th century American writers often differ by gender in the stories they tell about the American experience. The male quest most often depicts the hero's journey away from the d...
A study of Wharton's work which discusses her novels and travel books according to their specific geography or landscape rather than the date of composition. Emphasis is placed...
'...in this study, Goodwyn sets the standard for Wharton criticism.' - Judith E. Funston, American Literature 'Janet Goodwyn sets out, by looking at Wharton's appropriation of d...
Edith Wharton's Social Register
C. Preston · ISBN 9780333746226
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti sidottu
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a role in her social fictions. She understands her w...
Edith's Diary is not a thriller, but a tautly written tale of one ordinary woman whose life is slipping out of control and whose grip on reality is loosening. It is considered b...
The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton · ISBN 9780349009674
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
With a new introduction by Kelly LinkIn these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome d...
THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST'It holds you with the same intensity as The Diary of Anne Frank and leaves you heart-broken, illuminated...
Edith Stein and Regina Jonas
Emily Leah Silverman · ISBN 9780367321468
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
First published 2013. This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstr...
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge...
A Treasury of Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton; Doris Fielding Reid · ISBN 9780393337587
Julkaistu 1969 Kieli englanti nidottu
Edith Wharton as Spatial Activist and Analyst
Reneé Somers · ISBN 9780415803397
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti nidottu
Because she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environment, Edith Wharton developed a set of philosophies that she...
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception
Paul J. Ohler · ISBN 9780415880060
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti nidottu
Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innoc...
Edith Wharton as Spatial Activist and Analyst
Reneé Somers · ISBN 9780415975254
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti sidottu
Because she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environment, Edith Wharton developed a set of philosophies that she...
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception
Paul J. Ohler · ISBN 9780415977197
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innoc...
Blake Nevius’s close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton’s novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have a permanent claim on our att...