Teaching Edith Whartons Major Novels and Short Fiction

Zusatztext

This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Whartons widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Whartons works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.            

Autorenportrait

Ferdâ Asya is professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA, and editor of American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present (2013)        

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