Edith Wharton

Fighting France

From Dunkerque to Belfort
Herausgeber: Kelly, Alice

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Produktbeschreibung

'Alice Kelly's new edition of the journalism of Edith Wharton in First World War France is a valuable contribution to the literary history of the conflict. Here is a novelist, using all her skills as an eye witness to tell unknowing Americans of the staggering nature of a war the world had never seen before. A wonderful text, introduced with wit and authority.' Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University A new edition of Edith Wharton's war reportage from the First World War Edith Wharton, known primarily for her novels of American high society, was also a war writer. In 1915 she was one of the first woman writers to visit the war zones in France and Belgium and report back on what she saw. This resulting collection of six essays - five of which were originally published in American magazines - presents a fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of America's great novelists. Written with Wharton's distinctive literary skills to advocate American intervention in the war, this little-known war text demonstrates that she was a complex and accomplished propagandist. However, these eyewitness accounts also demonstrate a troubling awareness of the human cost of war. Incorporating a wealth of previously unpublished archival material and images, this critical edition aims to bring this neglected text into the field of Wharton studies, allowing critics and enthusiasts to re-evaluate her contribution as a war writer and to assess the significance of this period for her literary development. Key Features - Provides extensive critical apparatus for understanding the text, including an authoritative introduction and annotation in each chapter - Restores the original thirteen photographs which accompanied Wharton's text and includes twenty-five further illustrations in the introduction - Includes archival research in the Edith Wharton Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and the Edith Wharton Manuscripts, Firestone Library, Princeton University Alice Kelly has a PhD in British and American women's First World War literature from the University of Cambridge. Her broader research focuses on modernist culture and the commemoration of war. She has previously published on Katherine Mansfield and First World War nurse narratives. Cover image: Edith Wharton Collection (c) Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781474406925
• ISBN-10: 1474406920
• Artikelnr.: 42967730

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist and a short story writer. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (in 1921, for The Age of Innocence). She was also one of the few foreigners allowed to travel to the front lines in France during the First World War. Her articles written about this period were collected in Fighting France. Throughout the war Wharton worked with refugees and in 1916 she was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her support for the displaced. Alice Kelly is the Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage, Fighting France was published by EUP in December 2015 and she co-edited a Special Issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies on 'Katherine Mansfield and the First World War' (EUP, September 2014).