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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Meredith L. Goldsmith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-16 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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"These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and
Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: Margarida Cadima
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-11 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.�
Cosmopolitan Vistas
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Tom Lutz
Categories: American fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the pa
The House of Mirth
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Edith Wharton
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-30 - Publisher: Modernista

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In late 19th-century New York, high society places great demands on a woman—she must be beautiful, wealthy, cultured, and above all, virtuous, at least on the
Edith Wharton
Language: en
Pages: 866
Authors: Hermione Lee
Categories: Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Random House

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Born in 1862, during the Civil War, Edith Wharton broke away from her wealthy background. She travelled extensively in Europe, eventually settling in Paris. Thi