No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937), drawing on the recent discovery of 8000 of her letters and examining the intricate network of relations between her life and art, her public reputation and private life. Previous biographies have cast Wharton as a contradictory character, but here the author strives to engage her - one of America's most prolific writers in her time - both as a woman and a writer, examining the place of a woman and the meaning of femininity and female sexuality in late-19th and early 20th-century America and France. Particular attention is payed to Wharton's childhood and young adulthood in New York and Newport, her breaking away from America and the years of her residency in France, most importantly in Paris, where she successfully entered the closed society of French nobility.

No Gifts From Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton

Benstock, Shari

Penguin Putnam~trade

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms brings together for the first time two distinct threads of literary feminism: literary history and feminist criticism and theory. The first section of the book offers a history of women's contributions to Anglo-American literature over the past 500 years. It charts the social, cultural, and historical conditions that both shaped women's writing and prevented it from being recognized or valued by literary history. The second section provides an explanation and analysis of trends in feminist criticism and theory, focusing on how feminist approaches to women's texts have incorporated theoretical investigations of sexuality, subjectivity, and ideology. A Handbook of Literary Feminisms addresses the following questions: * Why do women write? * What is the range of women writers' subject matter and themes? * What genres have women chosen to write in and why? * How are female characters presented in women's texts? * What innovations in form and style have women contributed to literature? * How have women's texts been received by readers? * How have the processes of publication affected women's writing? * How has the process of canonization shaped the literary history of women? * How have women writers responded to literature written by women? * How did women's literature affect history and culture, including feminism? Supplemented by a time line, a glossary of key terms, and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, A Handbook of Literary Feminisms explores what women's writing means today and has meant over the centuries. An indispensable resource, it is an ideal text for courses in women's studies, women's literature, feminist studies, and gender studies.

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

Literature & Fiction

Ferriss, Suzanne

Woods, Susanne

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. EDITH WHARTON - A BIOGRAPHY - No Gifts from Chance, hardcover, Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards with dust jacket (protective plastic cover).

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton

Who's He When He's at Home

Benstock, Bernard

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

Who's He When He's at Home: A James Joyce Directory

Reference

A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age.

No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

History

University of Texas Press

Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years.
This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it "a distinguished contribution to modern literary history." Jane Marcus hails it as "the first serious literary history of the period and its women writers, making along the way no small contribution to our understanding of the relationships between women artists and their male counterparts, from Henry James to Hemingway, Joyce, Picasso, and Pound."

Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940

Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940

The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

The University of North Carolina Press

Drawing on many previously unavailable sources, the author of Women of the Left Bank offers a feminist perspective on the life and work of Edith Wharton, from questions about her paternity to her marriage, affairs, and personal relationships.

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