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a reassessment

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Edith Wharton's The custom of the country

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"During her lifetime, Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, publishing over forty books and winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But after her death her work slipped out of favour, and it is only in the last thirty years that her reputation as a literary heavyweight and a great writer has recovered." "Bringing together twelve leading Wharton scholars from Europe and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Wharton's 1913 text, The Custom of the Country. Described as 'her greatest book' by Hermione Lee in her 2007 biography of the writer, and listed by Wharton herself at the end of a long and prolific career as one of her own favorite works, The Custom of the Country arguably remains the author's most complex and controversial novel. The contributions to this collection demonstrate the continuing evolution of Wharton scholarship within modern critical approaches." --Book Jacket.

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Pickering & Chatto
Language
English
Pages
198

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Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country: A Reassessment
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Cover of: Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country: A Reassessment
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country: A Reassessment
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country: A Reassessment
2010, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Edith Wharton's The custom of the country
Edith Wharton's The custom of the country: a reassessment
2010, Pickering & Chatto
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Table of Contents

Introduction -- Laura Rattray
The custom of the country : Edith Wharton's conversation with the Atlantic Monthly -- Susan Goodman
When the reading had to stop : readers, reading and the circulation of texts in The custom of the country -- Shafquat Towheed
'Don't cry--it ain't that kind of story' : Wharton's business of fiction, 1908-12 -- Bonnie Shannon McMullen
Worst parents ever : cultures of childhood in The custom of the country -- Carol J. Singley
Crude ascending the staircase : Undine Spragg and the Armory Show -- Emily J. Orlando
'It's better to watch' : compulsive voyeurism in The custom of the country and The house of mirth -- Jessica Schubert McCarthy
A 'mist of opopanax' : mapping the scentscape of The custom of the country -- Pamela Knights
Landscape with the fall of Undine -- Margaret P. Murray
Girls from the Provinces : Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg -- Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Men at work in The custom of the country -- William Blazek
'Lost in translation' : financial plots and the modernist reader in The custom of the country -- Hildegard Hoeller.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, Brookfield, Vt
Series
Gender and genre -- no. 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.H16 C83 2010, PS3545.H16, PS3545.H16 Z543 2016, PS3545.H16 C8733 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 198 p.
Number of pages
198

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27033958M
Internet Archive
edithwhartonscus00ratt
ISBN 10
1851962247, 1851961747
ISBN 13
9781851962242, 9781851961740
OCLC/WorldCat
426114015, 1082196236, 958106140

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