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Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
- The World is a Welter
Engelsk Hardback
Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
- The World is a Welter
Engelsk Hardback

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American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.” This book pushes against the grain of critical orthodoxy by prioritizing other “species of spaces” in Wharton’s work. For example, how do Wharton’s narratives represent the organic profusion of external nature? Does the current scholarly fascination with the environmental humanities reveal previously unexamined or overlooked facets of Wharton’s craft? I propose that what is most striking about her narrative practice is how she utilizes, adapts, and translates pastoral tropes, conventions, and concerns to twentieth-century American actualities. It is no accident that Wharton portrays characters returning to, or exploring, various natural localities, such as private gardens, public parks, chic mountain resorts, monumental ruins, or country-estate “follies.” Such encounters and adventures prompt us to imagine new relationships with various geographies and the lifeforms that can be found there. The book addresses a knowledge gap in Wharton and the environmental humanities, especially recent debates in ecocriticism. The excavation of Wharton''s words and the background of her narratives with an eye to offering an ecocritical reading of her work is what the book focuses on.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
230
ISBN-13:
9781839988431
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1839988436
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
Anthem Press
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2023
Forfatter(e):
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