{"product_id":"edith-wharton-9780691002699","title":"Edith Wharton","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe widespread resurgence of interest in Edith Whartons career over the past twenty years has restored to print most of her fiction  travel books  and writings on architecture  gardening  and interior decoration. Yet one significant and substantial portion of her accomplishment has remained largely overlooked: Whartons numerous exercises in literary criticism. Constituting an unusually little-known body of work by an otherwise preeminent American writer  Whartons many scattered reviews and essays  literary eulogies  and forewords and introductions (to her own work  and to works of others) have never before been collected in a single volume. Covering works of various literary traditions  including eloquent general considerations of fiction and criticism  and embracing novels  volumes of lyric and dramatic verse  and works by other critics of literature  art  and architecture  these critical writings uniquely demonstrate the extraordinary range of Whartons critical interests and intelligence.  A searching and comprehensive introductory essay places her critical prose in the context of Whartons career as a whole  and draws on a wealth of unpublished materials in exploring the uncertainties and inhibitions against which she had to struggle in order to express herself as a critic at all. Assembling her miscellaneous critical writings (including some newly discovered texts)  this authoritative edition makes an exceptional contribution not only to the ongoing \"Wharton revival\" but to the study of American literature  of literary criticism  and of women as writers of criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67957186494517,"sku":"ByrdShop_069100269X","price":33.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691002699.jpg?v=1794465978","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/edith-wharton-9780691002699","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}