An Edith Wharton Chronology

2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9583-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Author Chronologies Series

This new volume in the Author Chronology series illuminates the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context. Edith Wharton was a prolific as well as a many-sided writer, who created not only novels, novellas, short stories, and poems, but also a notable series of travel writings, and did translations, pieces for the theatre, and essays on other writers and their works, as well as on the creation and criticism of fiction.This account of Wharton's personal and professional life provides an invaluable insight into an important American woman writer of the Twentieth Century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harden, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Ancestry and Family Chronology A Wharton Who's Who Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

EDGAR F. HARDEN received the AB degree from Princeton University and the AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Since 1966 he has taught at Simon Fraser University, where he is Emeritus Professor of English. He has published on Browning, Trollope and especially Thackeray in journals that include ; and . He is also the author of ; ; ; and ; and he has edited ; ; . A Supplement; ; ; and Thackeray's 'Barry Lyndon'. His last book was (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).