Love and Death in Edith Wharton's Fiction
Title | Love and Death in Edith Wharton's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Tricia M. Farwell |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780820479439 |
Original Scholarly Monograph
Summer
Title | Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ethan Frome" shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton
Title | Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton PDF eBook |
Author | D. Chambers |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2009-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230101542 |
This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Reef
Title | The Reef PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 1913 |
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ISBN |
The Long Run
Title | The Long Run PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 42 |
Release | 2018-04-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3732652203 |
Reproduction of the original: The Long Run by Edith Wharton
This Is My Daughter
Title | This Is My Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Roxana Robinson |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2016-06-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 150402561X |
A New York Times Notable Book: A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood. Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief, anger, and resentment. Emma’s three-year-old daughter, Tess, takes to the arrangement while Amanda, Peter’s sullen and unhappy seven-year-old, views it as a disaster rather than a fresh start. Over the course of this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Amanda becomes increasingly hostile and alienated—until one night she commits an act that threatens the already fragile bonds of the fledgling family. Set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, This Is My Daughter is a skillful and sensitive portrayal of the challenges facing modern families from master of the contemporary novel Roxana Robinson, whose acute observations of domestic life invite comparison to John Cheever and Henry James.
Bitter Tastes
Title | Bitter Tastes PDF eBook |
Author | Donna M. Campbell |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 082034172X |
Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. Campbell further places these women writers in a broader context by tracing their relationship to early film, which, like naturalism, claimed the ability to represent elemental social truths through a documentary method. Women had a significant presence in early film and constituted 40 percent of scenario writers--in many cases they also served as directors and producers. Campbell explores the features of naturalism that assumed special prominence in women's writing and early film and how the work of these early naturalists diverged from that of their male counterparts in important ways.