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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.
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.
Über den Autor
AVRIL HORNERis Emeritus Professor of English, Kingston University, UK. She is the co-author, with Sue Zlosnik, of Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005), Daphne du Maurier, Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998), Landscapes of Desire: Metaphors in Modern Women's Fiction (1990); editor of European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 (2002); co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Morality (2010); Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (2008) and Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality (1990).
JANET BEERis Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990), Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (1997), Edith Wharton (2002); editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008); co-editor of Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Affinities, 1854-1936 (2002), American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848-1920 (2002), The Awakening: A Sourcebook (2004), Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' (2007).
JANET BEERis Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990), Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (1997), Edith Wharton (2002); editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008); co-editor of Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Affinities, 1854-1936 (2002), American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848-1920 (2002), The Awakening: A Sourcebook (2004), Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' (2007).
Zusammenfassung
This book re-assesses Wharton's work in the context of European literature, experimental writing and literary treatments of ageing, offering fresh readings of her late novels
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Introduction The Mother's Recompense Twilight Sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers
Conclusion Bibliography Index
Conclusion Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
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Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 207 |
Inhalt: |
vi
207 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781403941268 |
ISBN-10: | 1403941262 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Beer, Janet
Loparo, Kenneth A |
Auflage: | 2011 edition |
Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Springer Nature Singapore |
Maße: | 225 x 144 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Janet Beer (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.08.2011 |
Gewicht: | 0,376 kg |
Über den Autor
AVRIL HORNERis Emeritus Professor of English, Kingston University, UK. She is the co-author, with Sue Zlosnik, of Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005), Daphne du Maurier, Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998), Landscapes of Desire: Metaphors in Modern Women's Fiction (1990); editor of European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 (2002); co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Morality (2010); Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (2008) and Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality (1990).
JANET BEERis Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990), Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (1997), Edith Wharton (2002); editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008); co-editor of Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Affinities, 1854-1936 (2002), American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848-1920 (2002), The Awakening: A Sourcebook (2004), Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' (2007).
JANET BEERis Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990), Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (1997), Edith Wharton (2002); editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008); co-editor of Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Affinities, 1854-1936 (2002), American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848-1920 (2002), The Awakening: A Sourcebook (2004), Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' (2007).
Zusammenfassung
This book re-assesses Wharton's work in the context of European literature, experimental writing and literary treatments of ageing, offering fresh readings of her late novels
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Introduction The Mother's Recompense Twilight Sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers
Conclusion Bibliography Index
Conclusion Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
---|---|
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 207 |
Inhalt: |
vi
207 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781403941268 |
ISBN-10: | 1403941262 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Beer, Janet
Loparo, Kenneth A |
Auflage: | 2011 edition |
Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Springer Nature Singapore |
Maße: | 225 x 144 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Janet Beer (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.08.2011 |
Gewicht: | 0,376 kg |
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