Julie Olin-Ammentorp

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal the profound similarities in their theories of fiction, their understanding of the interconnectedness of place, culture, and experience, and their concerns about American culture.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781496203243
• ISBN-10: 1496203240
• Artikelnr.: 54920573

Autorenporträt

Julie Olin-Ammentorp is a professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She is the author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Wharton, Cather, Place, and Culture
Part 1. Contexts and Intersections
1. The “Literary Aristocrat” and the Plainspoken Pioneer
2. The Land of Letters, the Kingdom of Art
Part 2. The Place of Culture
3. New York City: Beauty, Business, and Hothouse Flowers
4. The West: Provinciality, Vitality, and the “Real” America
5. The Idea of France
6. Questions of Travel and Home
Notes
Bibliography
Index