Search Results for Edith Wharton

...Carol J. Singley Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Race, Culture, Nation: Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan Carol J. Singley A n avid reader, Edith Wharton devoured volumes of philosophy and religion. As R. W B. Lewis observes in his biography, she owned more books on religion...

...Jill Kress Karn Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts , by Orlando Emily J. , Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2007 . 250 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Edith Wharton and Victorian Visual Culture Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts by Emily J. Orlando...

...Emily J. Orlando This essay examines Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen’s career-long conversation with the fiction of Edith Wharton. Although Larsen cared little for the suggestion that she “had gone to Mrs. Wharton for her lessons in writing,” likely because the comparison cast doubt...

...Nir Evron This article examines a tension in Edith Wharton’s social ideal between the conflicting virtues of reverence and curiosity. Wharton, it shows, was quite conscious of the potential clash between the centripetal claims of tradition and the centrifugal tendencies of inquisitive individualism...

...Regina Martin Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Regina Martin The Drama of Gender and Genre in Edith Wharton’s Realism Regina Martin Edith Wharton’s depiction of the socially ambitious Undine Spragg’s peregrinations through New York and French “society” suggests...

...Gary Totten Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Gary Totten “Inhospitable Splendour”: Spectacles of Consumer Culture and Race in Wharton’s Summer Gary Totten In her posthumously published essay “A Little Girl’s New York” (1937), Edith Wharton refers to her mother...

...” to a collection of her ghost stories, Edith Wharton recounts an inscrutable terror that plagued her for seven years as a child, when she was recovering from an almost fatal case of ty- phoid, an illness she describes as marking “the dividing line between my little childhood and the next stage” (301).1...

...). The cast of literary figures in the book is indeed quite diverse, featuring Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, and W. H. Auden, among others. But, as Rives suggests, her analysis of the face often...

... (1996): 360-73 Ba, Mariama. See Campbell Barbusse, Henri. See Miller, Eugene E. Bataille, Georges. Seejohnson Beckett, Samuel. See Gontarski Benert, Annette Larson. “Edith Wharton at War: Civilized Space in Troubled Times.” 42.3 (1996): 322-43 Bendey, Paul. “Depression and Ted...

... opportunities afforded by the hotel setting. Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and E. M. Forster, and other British modern- ists, were taken with hotels, as were their American counterparts—writers like Henry James, a self-proclaimed “hotel child,” Sinclair Lewis, and Edith Wharton—and Continental writers...

..., Culture, Nation: Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan” 49.1 (2003): 32-45 Smith, Craig. “Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush. ” 48.3 (2002): 348-361 Smith, Stevie. See Najarian Spender, Stephen. See Brown Stanfield, Paul Scott. “‘This Implacable Doctrine...

..., in its malleability and permeability, was coded as feminine. 9 Near the turn of the twentieth century, novelists were working tirelessly to establish this new mode of selfhood in the house of fiction. In Johnson’s white literary contemporaries—Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton...

... modernism came into being. And Eliot commented on almost all of them—Ezra Pound, of course; James Joyce, H.D., William Butler Yeats, Edith Wharton, Edith Sitwell, Wyndham Lewis, and the Georgians, among others; and some of the poets of France. It is clear that a familiar allegation that Eliot dismissed...

..., Charles Davenport), fiction writers (London and Frank Norris, but also Edith Wharton), sociologists (Veblen, G. Stanley Hall), and turn-of-the- century industrialists (Leland Stanford). The presiding figure is David Starr Jordan, a well-known ichthyologist and eugenicist, founder of Stanford...

... culture there has ever been.” Carol Singley’s contribution concerns another, even more unreserved, champion of France, Edith Wharton, who—the idea boggles today— wrote French Ways and Their Meaning partly as a guide for American ser­ vicemen in France after the Great War. While...

..., William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Sinclair Lewis, Claude McKay, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, Floyd Dell, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, Ruth McKenney, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, Jessie Fauset, George...

... and burning the copies she made for them; when it comes time to publish William’s letters, and Henry actually loses a bunch of them, much to his nephew’s dismay; when Edith Wharton and Edmund Gosse square off against the Jameses in the contest over the choice of edi- tor of the first collection...

... Primitivism .’” MELUS 19 , no. 3 : 107 – 23 . Powell Michael . 2007 . “ A Tale of Two Cities .” New York Times , May 6 , www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html . Wharton Edith . 1909 . A Motor-Flight through France . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons...

... of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986. Fussell, Paul. “On Travel and Travel Writing.” The Norton Book of Travel. Ed. Paul Fussell. New York: Norton, 1987.13-17. Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Land­...

... utilitarian considerations may have made France attractive to the teacher. GurdjiefF admitted that at one point in his life he had been “sick for art” (Webb 39). Like so many others, he might have been drawn to Paris by what Edith Wharton described as that city’s “long artistic supremacy” (55). He...