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Edith Wharton
Janet Beer
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Description for Edith Wharton
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Professor Beer’s study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton’s work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence ... Read more
Professor Beer’s study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton’s work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308981
SKU
V9780746308981
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About Janet Beer
Janet Beer is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. She was previously a Professor and Head of the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and has also taught at Warwick University, Yale University – where she held fellowship – and the Roehampton Institute London. Her main areas of scholarship are early twentieth-century literature generally and Edith Wharton studies in ... Read more
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