179 results for 'Edith Wharton'

Edith Wharton is renowned for her nonfiction work "The writing of Fiction" and provides classic guidance on Writing and reading. Wharton was the very first female to win, in fact, a Pulitzer Prize...

Blake Nevius’s close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton’s novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have a permanent claim on our attention. Wharton is the...

Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped...

Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution-from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her...

Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton's The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of...

Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Wharton's greatest, and most chilling, tales show one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at...

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton's novel is a complicated work of fiction which exposes a crucial viewpoint on early twentieth century American society. A review of its primary themes,...

Whartonian Landscapes sets forth how the "greening" of Wharton's private and public writings contributes to exciting strands in cultural geography and recent post-colonial theory: for example,...

Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A...