Wretched Exotic

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Marking a new direction in Edith Wharton studies, this collection of provocative essays considers her as a cross-cultural writer. A resident of France for the last thirty years of her life, Wharton described herself as a «wretched exotic», an American by birth, but a European by inclination and, in fundamental ways, a true citizen of neither. Shari Benstock, Millicent Bell, and Susan Goodman discuss the ambivalent nature of her long residence in France. Their biographical accounts provide background for essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Linda Wagner-Martin, Judith Sensibar, Roger Asselineau, and other leading scholars who analyze Wharton as an expatriate, a European traveler, a WWI participant, and an international literary figure.

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Katherine Joslin

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«The elegant and perceptive essays in this collection show us the European Wharton - her life, her opinions, and most important, her literary achievements. It is indispensable to any Wharton scholar.» (Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University, Editor, 'American Literature', President, American Studies Association)
«The coherence and thoroughness of their øPrice and Joslin's! editing is evident in the high quality of the collection.» (Janet Beer Goodwyn, 'The Yearbook of English Studies', 1996)
«...'consistently offering fresh insights and new perspectives'.» (Jo Ann Middleton, 'American Literary Scholarship', 1993)
«... the 19 essays in this outstanding collection deal with a wide range of topics pertaining to Wharton's life in Europe...a landmark volume for all specialists and students of Wharton and her contemporaries». (Elsa Nettles, 'Choice', July/August 1994)
«'Wretched Exotic' is a splendid collection of nineteen essays by diverse hands on Edith Wharton's life and work after 1907, when she permanently moved to Europe...øit! offers a diverse and plentiful compendium of fact and information...and every serious student of Wharton's fiction will want to own this book.» (James W. Tuttleton, 'Edith Wharton Review', Spring 1994)
«Cet ouvrage rend justice à Edith Wharton, voyageuse cosmopolite.» (Yvette Rivière, 'Revue Française d'Etudes Americaines')
«A remarkably rich assembly of essays. They explore with notable grace and perception Edith Wharton's bi-cultural world and her interaction with it - not only its role in the shaping of her as a person and a writer, but her (often resounding) impact upon 'its' American and European components. Amid the range of critical approaches, contemporary emphases are deployed tactfully, even as the old Wharton-style humanism has its welcome say. Edith Wharton in these pages comes into her full, many-layered stature to a degree never before realised.» (R.W.B. Lewis, Yale University)

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«The elegant and perceptive essays in this collection show us the European Wharton - her life, her opinions, and, most important, her literary achievements. It is indispensable to any Wharton scholar». (Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University)
«A remarkable rich assembly of essays. They explore with notable grace and perception Edith Wharton's bi-cultural world and her interaction with it - not only its role in the shaping of her as a person and a writer, but her (often resounding) impact upon 'its' American and European components. Amid the range of critical approaches, contemporary emphases are deployed tactfully, even as the old Wharton-style humanism has its welcome say. Edith Wharton in these pages comes into her full, many-layered stature to a degree never before realised.» (R.W.B. Lewis, Yale University)
«...the 19 essays in this outstanding collection are of high quality, stimulating, well written, scholarly, sophisticated in method but accessible to the general reader. A comprehensive introduction, detailed notes accompanying each essay, and a 15-page bibliography enhance the value of this landmark volume.» (E. Nettels, Choice)
«The vast and varied implications and reverberations of the American-European relationship in Wharton's work are on display here; the collection contains a good deal of fine writing which, in its multiplicity of approach and interest, does full justice to the complexity of the subject.» (Janet Beer Goodwyn, The Yearbook of English Studies)

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