... issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English is devoted to Wharton; a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review describes teaching strategies. This year also witnesses a tectonic shift in Cather scholarship with the publication of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, a volume Cather...

...Kim Vanderlaan; John Swift Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 [email protected] [email protected] 7 Wharton and Cather Kim Vanderlaan and John Swift The impressive volume of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather scholarship this year signals that both novelists have achieved...

... articles and chapters in books. Almost all critics now place Edith Wharton and Willa Cather in historical contexts, showing how their aesthetic principles and their representations of social reality were shaped by their responses to defin- ing events and issues such as immigration, war, class conflict...

...Carol J. Singley; Robert Thacker © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 7  Wharton and Cather Carol J. Singley and Robert Thacker Edith Wharton’s major novels receive the most attention this year, with The Custom of the Country highlighted in a collection of essays, the first...

... societies subject to the materialism of a consumerist culture. i Edith Wharton a. General Studies A highlight of this year s scholarship is Sarah Bird Wright s splendid Edith Wharton A to Z: An Essential Guide to the Life and Work (Facts on File). This encyclopedic volume of more than 450 entries contains...

...Mary A. Carney; Joseph C. Murphy American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8287947 © 2020 by Duke University Press 7 Wharton and Cather Mary A. Carney and Joseph C. Murphy This year s scholarly work on Edith Wharton includes fresh biographical perspectives, comparative studies...

... of their literary art. A number of the novels, notably The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Professor’s House, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl, stimulate controversy centering on the mean- ing of the protagonists’ acts and relationships. i Edith Wharton a. Books, Letters, Bibliography Hildegard...

.... i Edith Wharton a. Critical Books A highlight of the year’s scholarship, Deborah Lindsay Williams’s Not in Sisterhood is an engrossing study of literary relationships based on correspondence that Wharton and Cather maintained for more than a decade with Zona Gale, a well-established writer...

...Kim Vanderlaan; John N. Swift Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Wharton and Cather Kim Vanderlaan and John N. Swift As readers of the scholarship on Edith Wharton and Willa Cather published in , we have been struck by its continuing maturation and the encouragement of and reliance...

...Carol J. Singley; Robert Thacker Duke University Press 2011 7  Wharton and Cather Carol J. Singley and Robert Thacker There is much to laud in the 7 books and 22 book chapters and articles on Edith Wharton published this year. Most welcome is Laura Rattray’s edition...

... and middlebrow culture. Critical interest in The House of Mirth (Wharton’s most popular novel) and The Professor’s House (favored by Cather’s critics) shows no signs of diminishing. i Edith Wharton a. Critical Books Janet Beer’s Edith Wharton (Northcote House) in the British Council series...

... of the Lark and in Samuel R. Delany’s essay on A Lost Lady and Richard Wagner’s Parsifal reviewed here. Some new scholarship (Melissa J. Homestead’s essay on the Cather- Edith Lewis relationship and Chung-Hao Ku’s on “Paul’s Case”) seems to be rethinking conventional queer approaches to Cather and her...

...Carol J. Singley; Robert Thacker Duke University Press 2010 7  Wharton and Cather Carol J. Singley and Robert Thacker Production of Edith Wharton scholarship continues at an impressive rate, with 3 monographs and 18 articles on topics ranging from Darwin to the Gothic. Among...

.... American Literary Scholarship (2007) doi 10.1215/00659142-2008-009 © 2009 by Duke University Press 140 Wharton and Cather i  Edith Wharton a. Editions and Books  The well-researched volumeThe Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901–1930, ed. Shafquat...

... section of this chapter is contributed by Carol J. Singley, the Cather section by Ann Moseley. i  Edith Wharton Wharton scholarship reflects new critical approaches in psychoanalytic and cultural studies as well as lines of inquiry in feminism, realism, regionalism, modernism, and Gothicism...

...Carol J. Singley; Robert Thacker © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 7  Wharton and Cather Carol J. Singley and Robert Thacker Scholarship is flourishing in this 150th anniversary year of Edith Whar- ton’s birth. A landmark publication of letters from Wharton to her gov- erness...

... on teaching Cather and on her short fiction, with the exception of “The Namesake.” The Wharton section of this chapter is contributed by Carol J. Singley, the Cather section by Ann Moseley. i  Edith Wharton a. Editions and Books  Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan assemble valu- able...

... is contributed by Carol J. Singley, the Cather section by Ann Moseley.) i  Edith Wharton a. Editions and Books  Edith Wharton: Selected Poems, ed. Louis Auchincloss (Library of America), will be welcomed by scholars and general readers. Auchincloss includes the complete texts of Wharton’s...

.... Linda Wagner-Martin in her preface to The Portable Edith Wharton (Penguin) states her dual aim of making Wharton’s work acces- sible to general readers and ‘‘pay[ing] homage to the author’s sheer skill Wagner-Martin emphasizes Wharton’s long, successful career and notes subversive aspects...

...Carol J. Singley; Robert Thacker © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 7  Wharton and Cather Carol J. Singley and Robert Thacker No book-length studies on Edith Wharton appear this year, but she is discussed exclusively or receives mention in 20 journal articles. The quality...