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Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism (Hardcover)
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Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism (Hardcover)
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Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book
to examine the connections linking two major American writers of
the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In
twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton
scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor
Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers' overlapping contexts,
interests, and aesthetic techniques. Thematic sections highlight
modernist trends found in each author's works. To begin, Peter Hays
and Ellen Andrews Knodt argue for reading Wharton as a modernist
writer, noting how her works feature characteristics that critics
customarily credit to a younger generation of writers, including
Hemingway. Since Wharton and Hemingway each volunteered for
humanitarian medical service in World War I, then drew upon their
experiences in subsequent literary works, Jennifer Haytock and
Milena Radeva-Costello analyze their powerful perspectives on the
cataclysmic conflict traditionally viewed as marking the advent of
modernism in literature. In turn, Cecilia Macheski and Sirpa
Salenius consider the authors' passionate representations of Italy,
informed by personal sojourns there, in which they observed its
beautiful landscapes and culture, its liberating contrast with the
United States, and its period of fascist politics. Linda
Wagner-Martin, Lisa Tyler, and Anna Green focus on the complicated
gender politics embedded in the works of Wharton and Hemingway, as
evidenced in their ideas about female agency, sexual liberation,
architecture, and modes of transportation. In the collection's
final section, Dustin Faulstick, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, and
Parley Ann Boswell address suggestive intertextualities between the
two authors with respect to the biblical book of Ecclesiastes,
their serialized publications in Scribner's Magazine, and their
affinities with the literary and cinematic tradition of noir.
Together, the essays in this engaging collection prove that
comparative studies of Wharton and Hemingway open new avenues for
understanding the pivotal aesthetic and cultural movements central
to the development of American literary modernism.
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