Edith Wharton and Genre Beyond Fiction
‘In Rattray’s hands, Edith Wharton is re-presented as a writer mastering a widerange of genres beyond the celebrated fiction. Wharton’s achievements inpoetry, drama, architecture and design, criticism, memoir, and travel writingemerge as sites for her mos
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Edith Wharton and Genre Beyond Fiction Laura Rattray
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Series Editor Linda Wagner-Martin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century publishes works by contemporary critics that help shape critical opinion regarding literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14765
Laura Rattray
Edith Wharton and Genre Beyond Fiction
Laura Rattray University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
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Edith Wharton and Genre Laura Rattray’s meticulously researched and beautifully written study fully establishes not only Wharton’s amazing versatility as an author, but her virtuosity in genres as diverse as poetry, travel-writing, play-writing, design, life-writing, and literary theory. In lively prose, Edith Wharton and Genre also offers a more socially conscious and feminist Wharton, a woman who was often, as Rattray argues, a “trailblazer.” So, too, is Rattray, who has changed the way we will think of Edith Wharton. —Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Professor of English, Le Moyne College, is the author of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, an
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