Bøker av Laura Rattray

So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsideredin this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travelwriter, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, andan author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form.

Examines the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts, interests, and aesthetic techniques.

During her lifetime, Edith Wharton was America's most popular and prolific writer. This book presents the unpublished writings of a canonical author, along with three stage-plays that open up a different field of Wharton studies. It also includes a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, headnotes and endnotes.

During her lifetime, Edith Wharton was America's most popular and prolific writer

During her lifetime, Edith Wharton was America's most popular and prolific writer