Edith Wharton and Genre
Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond
Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in
genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much
more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered
in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel
writer,...
Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond
Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in
genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much
more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered
in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel
writer,...
