Wharton's late and critically-neglected novels are reclaimed as experimental in form and radical in content in this book, which also suggests that her portrayal of older female characters in her last six novels anticipates contemporary unease about the cultural marginalization of the older woman in Western society.
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 16 Aug 2011
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781403941268
About Janet BeerKenneth A. Loparo
AVRIL HORNERis Emeritus Professor of English Kingston University UK. She is the co-author with Sue Zlosnik of Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005) Daphne du Maurier Writing Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998) Landscapes of Desire: Metaphors in Modern Women's Fiction (1990); editor of European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 (2002); co-editor of Iris Murdoch and Morality (2010); Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (2008) and Body Matters: Feminism Textuality Corporeality (1990). JANET BEERis Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University UK. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990) Kate Chopin Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (1997) Edith Wharton (2002); editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008); co-editor of Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Affinities 1854-1936 (2002) American Feminism: Key Source Documents 1848-1920 (2002) The Awakening: A Sourcebook (2004) Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' (2007).