Wretched exotic : essays on Edith Wharton in Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Joslin, Katherine, 1947-, Price, Alan, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, [1996]
Series:American university studies. American literature ; vol. 53.
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Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes of desire: Edith Wharton and Europe / Shari Benstock
  • Edith Wharton's inner circle / Susan Goodman
  • Edith Wharton in France / Millicent Bell
  • Can France survive this defender? Contemporary American reaction to Wharton's expatriation / Kristin Olson Lauer
  • The salons of Wharton's fiction: Wharton and Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and Stein / Robert A. Martin and Linda Wagner-Martin
  • Edith Wharton's discriminations: Eurotrash and European treasures / Carol Wershsoven
  • Making it her own: Edith Wharton's Europe / Shirley Foster
  • Edith Wharton and the dog-eared travel book / Mary Suzanne Schriber
  • Pathways to a personal aesthetic: Edith Wharton's travels in Italy and France / Maureen E. St. Laurent
  • Aesthetics and ideology in Italian backgrounds / Brigitte Bailey
  • Mapping the contours of a forgotten land: Edith Wharton and Spain / Teresa Gomez Reus.
  • Wharton mobilizes artists to aid the War homeless / Alan Price
  • "Behind the lines" in Edith Wharton's A son at the front: Re-writing a masculinist tradition / Judith L. Sensibar
  • Lily Bart and Masquerade inscribed in the female mode / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
  • Wharton through a Kristevan lens: the maternality of The gods arrive / Julie Olin-Ammentorp
  • Edith Wharton's case of Roman fever / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
  • "Fleeing the Sewer": Edith Wharton, George Sand, and literary innovation / Katherine Joslin
  • Edith Wharton: she thought in French and wrote in English / Roger Asselineau
  • Edith Wharton's Reading in European languages and its influence on her work / Helen Killoran.