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American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 25–31.
Published: 01 September 2021
... studies. One recurring theme is the complex nature of Hawthorne s narrators and the abiding question of where his own voice emerges. Additional articles examine the in uences of other th-century writers and phi- losophers as well as the architecture and landscaping of Salem s House of the Seven Gables. i...
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American Literary Scholarship (2004) 2002 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of connections between literary art 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...
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American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 127–144.
Published: 01 September 2013
... poetry, fiction, and nonfiction across the equally broad span of Wharton’s early, middle, and late career. Strong interest in The House of Mirth continues, as evidenced by four excellent essays that address naturalism, consumer culture, biblical allusion, and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway...
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American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 139–154.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... Both the Wharton and Cather reviews continue to serve their readers well, publishing some of the year’ s most noteworthy scholarship. New editions of the best- known novels —e.g., The House o f Mirth, Ethan Frome, and My Ántonia— continue to multiply. Almost all Wharton’s short stories...
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American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 117–137.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., and more than 30 separate articles and book chapters. Cultural criticism, source studies, and genre studies—especially of modernism—remain significant approaches. One of Ours, The Profes- sor’s House, and The Song of the Lark receive the most attention. There is a noticeable decline in essays...
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American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the intentional fallacy when speculating about the Province-House legends. Attempting to excavate similar territory, ESQ presents a special double issue devoted to a topic trite and true, the friendship between Hawthorne and Melville. i Editions and Bibliography Although editions of The Scarlet Letter...
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American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 139–156.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Divorce emphasizes Wharton’s rejection of Bourget’s position in defense of the divorce laws of the Roman Catholic Church. Other source studies discover parallels between F. Marion Crawford’s novel The Heart of Rome (1903) and The House of Mirth and between Hugh Walpole’s ‘‘The Silver Mask’’ in his...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 23–32.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to recent years, not a single publication lingered on The Marble Faun as a source for analysis, with all articles but one exploring The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables. Along with psychoanalytic approaches, intertextuality and influ- ences remained sturdy windows through which to view...
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American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance also inspire notable critical responses, both in articles and in chapters from two monographs on 19th-century literature. i The Tales Joan Curbet Soler s The Ekphrastic Moment: Art, Image, and Identity in Hawthorne s Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1842...
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American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 September 2011
... by Judith Saunders and Jacquelyn Scott appear this year, which marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. The major novels—The House of Mirth, Summer, and The Age of Inno- cence—continue to generate enthusiasm, as do...
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American Literary Scholarship (2002) 2000 (1): 123–138.
Published: 01 September 2002
... 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...
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American Literary Scholarship (2010) 2008 (1): 133–152.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the novels The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence generate significant attention, with commentary also appearing on The Reef, The Custom of the Country, Glimpses of the Moon, and The Children. Interest in Wharton’s ghost fiction shows no signs of diminishing; a variety of essays...
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American Literary Scholarship (2012) 2010 (1): 139–159.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and ethical approaches to The House of Mirth and The Fruit of the Tree, the role of psychology and family systems in The House of Mirth, treatments of law, politics, and nursing in The Reef and Summer, and speech-act theory in The Age of Innocence. The principal contributions to Cather scholarship...
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American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of work and range of topics covered in these articles, many of them comparative studies, demonstrate Wharton’s increasing centrality in American literature. The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and the late novels receive focused attention. This year’s Willa Cather...
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American Literary Scholarship (2000) 1998 (1): 113–128.
Published: 01 September 2000
... relationships with her editors and other writers, Henry James fore- most among them. The longest essays, on major works such as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, set forth central themes, scenes, characters, and settings, quote Wharton s statements about the works, and survey...
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American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 127–149.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Critics as usual findThe House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence absorbing objects of study, and her war writings and racial politics receive particular attention. A special issue of The Edith Wharton Review (20, i) is dedicated to the memory of Daniel Scott Marshall, an accomplished Wharton...
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American Literary Scholarship (2005) 2003 (1): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2005
... criticism in light of repressed female sex- uality and homosociality. Wharton also appears in the company of major writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Crane, Conrad, Wright, and Nabo- kov, as well as with lesser-known figures such as David Graham Phillips. The major novels—The House of Mirth, Ethan...
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American Literary Scholarship (2020) 2018 (1): 103–123.
Published: 01 September 2020
... biographical perspectives, comparative studies, and historical and archival research. Major themes are religion, gender roles, war, and the rise of modern- ism and technological innovation. Scholars offer compelling analyses of diverse works, including short stories and longer texts such as The House of Mirth...
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American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 35–48.
Published: 01 September 2009
...; in Part 2, “Thin Art, High Art,” Lounsbery interprets Gogol’s Dead Souls and Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables as works that critique cultural insufficiencies; and in Part 3, “Tradition and Modernity, or, What Gogol and Hawthorne Found in Rome,” she examines Gogol’s Petersburg tales...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 September 2017
... as a realist, a modernist, a writer of historical fiction, and an interpreter and reviser of sentimentality. They analyze diverse novels, includingThe Valley of Decision, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, Sum- mer, The Age of Innocence, Twilight Sleep, and The Children. Her short fiction...