Overview
- Offers essays that will guide current and new instructors of Wharton’s fiction
- Designed to spark new and creative approaches to teaching Wharton’s well-known yet highly complex body of fiction
- Brings a number of approaches to Wharton into one volume
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Culture and History
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Wharton and Critical Lenses
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Wharton and Interdisciplinary Contexts
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About this book
This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.
Reviews
- Alfred Bendixen, Princeton University, USA, and Executive Director of American Literature Association
“This is a rousing collection of essays on how to make Edith Wharton relevant to twenty-first century-students. With a deep understanding of the student mindset, this volume employs fresh insight and remarkable creativity to help a new generation grasp the more germane points of this surprisingly modern and still unmatched American author.”
- Jennie Fields, author of The Age of Desire (2012) and Atomic Love (2020)
“This volume offers essays that will guide new and experienced instructors of Wharton’s fiction. The contributors take a variety of Wharton’s texts as their subjects and approach the teaching of her work from a range of perspectives, from different theoretical contexts to varying roles in the curricula. This volume will spark new and creative approaches to teaching Wharton’s well-known and highly complex body of fiction.”
- Jennifer Haytock, Professor, SUNY Brockport, USA, and author of Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008)Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ferdâ Asya is professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA, and editor of American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present (2013)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction
Editors: Ferdâ Asya
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52742-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52741-9Published: 14 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52744-0Published: 14 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52742-6Published: 13 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature