A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer"

Gale, Cengage LearningLiterary Criticism
A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781410359551

Category: Literary Criticism

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A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "Summer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Edith Wharton in Context

Laura RattrayLiterary Criticism
Edith Wharton in Context

Author: Laura Rattray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107310810

Category: Literary Criticism

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Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights.

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

Millicent BellLiterary Criticism
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

Author: Millicent Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521485134

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 236

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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.

Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction

Ferdâ AsyaLiterary Criticism
Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction

Author: Ferdâ Asya

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030527426

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 331

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This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.

Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

James PhelanLiterary Criticism
Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

Author: James Phelan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118512890

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 280

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This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform. Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and Freedom Relates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernism Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts

Student Companion to Elie Wiesel

Sanford Sternlicht
Student Companion to Elie Wiesel

Author: Sanford Sternlicht

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0313325308

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This volume offers critical analysis of all of Wiesel's major writings, as well as selected nonfiction including essays, Bible studies, plays, and more.

Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Wisam Abughosh ChaleilaLiterary Criticism
Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Author: Wisam Abughosh Chaleila

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000328189

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 208

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"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear. This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying in great detail the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deeply in both fictional and real personas, whether they are characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm. Though history is taught, it is not so thoroughly examined. To our misfortune, we naively think that bigoted ideas are not a thing we could become afflicted with. They are antiques from the past – yet they possessed many hundreds of people and they surround us still. Since we’ve experienced very little change, it seems discipline is necessary to truly attempt to be rid of these ideas.

The Historian's Scarlet Letter: Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History

Melissa McFarland PennellLiterary Criticism
The Historian's Scarlet Letter: Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's Masterpiece as Social and Cultural History

Author: Melissa McFarland Pennell

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781440846991

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 261

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This annotated edition of The Scarlet Letter enhances student and reader comprehension of a standard work studied in literature classes, exploring names, places, objects, and allusions. • Makes the novel more easily understandable for a 21st-century audience • Provides annotations that identify historical events, persons, and objects as well as allusions to the Bible and other texts familiar to Hawthorne's contemporaries • Presents an account of Hawthorne's life and career that helps to explain his interest in the past, including his family's connections to significant events in colonial Massachusetts, some of which caused Hawthorne to see the past as a source of guilt • Explores Hawthorne's research into colonial New England and 17th-century England that allowed him to create the context for his characters and to suggest underlying connections between colonial New Englanders and their former home

American Women's Regionalist Fiction

Monika ElbertFiction
American Women's Regionalist Fiction

Author: Monika Elbert

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030555528

Category: Fiction

Page: 372

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American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not unity—thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes, immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways. The essays study the uncanny or the haunting quality of “the commonplace,” as Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to The House of the Seven Gables, in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930. This collection seeks to examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is jarring and Gothic in nature.