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The House of Mirth: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

 
9780393959017: The House of Mirth: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393959015 ISBN 13: 9780393959017
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of "The Dying Gladiator."Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and designer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The Decoration of Houses, and many other books. Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton's Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393959015
ISBN 13 
9780393959017
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
374
Herausgeber
Ammons Elizabeth
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