Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings

Edith Wharton

ISBN 10: 0691043493 / ISBN 13: 9780691043494

Edité par Princeton University Press, 1996

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First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Princeton University Press, 1996. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, no wear to the jacket. 336 pages with Index, Bibliography, and several Appendices. Edited by Frederick Wegener. A collection of the critical reviews and essays by Wharton. There is a focus on her literary criticism, but there are also essays on architecture, poetry, and art as well as her Prefaces and Forewords for the books of other authors. This copy has no former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The edges of the text block are clean. As is the case for Princeton University Press editions, the dark green cloth covered boards are sturdy, and the binding is a high quality sewn type. Boards are clean and the corners are not bumped. We have several listings on Edith Wharton.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691043493
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691043494
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • New York
  • Literary Criticism
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

The widespread reurgence of interest in Edith Wharton's career since the 1970s has restored to print most of her fiction, travel books and writings on architecture, gardening and interior decoration. However, her numerous exercises in literary criticism have been overlooked. Never before collected into one volume, this book contains Wharton's literary criticism writings. The writings cover works of various literary traditions, including general considerations of fiction and criticism and embracing novels, verse, and works by other critics of literature, art and architecture. An introductory essay places Wharton's critical prose in the context of her career as a whole and draws on many unpublished materials in exploring the incertainties and inhibitions against which she had to struggle in order to express herself.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The widespread resurgence of interest in Edith Wharton's career over the past twenty years has restored to print most of her fiction, travel books, and writings on architecture, gardening, and interior decoration. Yet one significant and substantial portion of her accomplishment has remained largely overlooked: Wharton's numerous exercises in literary criticism. Constituting an unusually little-known body of work by an otherwise preeminent American writer, Wharton's many scattered reviews and essays, literary eulogies, and forewords and introductions (to her own work, and to works of others) have never before been collected in a single volume. Covering works of various literary traditions, including eloquent general considerations of fiction and criticism, and embracing novels, volumes of lyric and dramatic verse, and works by other critics of literature, art, and architecture, these critical writings uniquely demonstrate the extraordinary range of Wharton's critical interests and intelligence. A searching and comprehensive introductory essay places her critical prose in the context of Wharton's career as a whole, and draws on a wealth of unpublished materials in exploring the uncertainties and inhibitions against which she had to struggle in order to express herself as a critic at all. Assembling her miscellaneous critical writings (including some newly discovered texts), this authoritative edition makes an exceptional contribution not only to the ongoing "Wharton revival" but to the study of American literature, of literary criticism, and of women as writers of criticism.