Edith Wharton as spatial activist and analyst
By: by Renee Somers.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Homes and haunts; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Settings; Space and time in literature; Personal space in literature; Architecture in literature; Dwellings in literature; Setting (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of space: Newport's built environment in the gilded age; title: Edith Wharton as a theorist of space: a study of her earliest homes and influences; title: The literary spaces of class and gender: Edith Wharton's early short fiction; title: Spaces and sites without limits: the decoration of houses and the Mount; title: Full circle: The house of mirth and three Newport narratives.