The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

Author: Millicent Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-06-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521485135

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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

Author: Timothy Parrish

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1107013135

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This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism

Author: Donald Pizer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-06-30

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780521438766

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This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1107117143

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This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

Author: A. David Moody

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-11-24

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1107493706

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In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of historical perspectives; and the final chapter provides an expert review of the whole field of Eliot studies and is supplemented by a listing of the most significant publications. There is a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, the Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and other readers of Eliot.

Edith Wharton in Context
Edith Wharton in Context

Author: Laura Rattray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1107310814

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Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades, Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social, cultural and historical change. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights.

A Companion to the American Short Story
A Companion to the American Short Story

Author: Alfred Bendixen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1119685648

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A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, and edited by two major scholars, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith Wharton, at the end of the nineteenth century to important modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Wright. Contributions with a broader focus address groups of multiethnic, Asian, and Jewish writers. Each chapter places the short story into context, focusing on the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles. The Companion takes account of cutting edge approaches to literary studies and contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, embracing genres such as ghost and detective fiction, cycles of interrelated short fiction, and comic, social and political stories. The volume also reflects the diverse communities that have adopted this literary form and made it their own, featuring entries on a variety of feminist and multicultural traditions. This volume presents an important new consideration of the role of the short story in the literary history of American literature.

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

Author: Walter Kalaidjian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-04-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521829953

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Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.