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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version in Scribner's for most of 1905 and then as a hardback in October of that year. Wharton's story of Lily Bart, a 'social parasite', according to reviewer Edmund Wilson, 'on the fringes of the very rich', topped the American bestseller list for four months. Furthermore, the novel sealed the author's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four articles collected in this New Essays volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version in Scribner's for most of 1905 and then as a hardback in October of that year. Wharton's story of Lily Bart, a 'social parasite', according to reviewer Edmund Wilson, 'on the fringes of the very rich', topped the American bestseller list for four months. Furthermore, the novel sealed the author's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four articles collected in this New Essays volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work.
Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the
order of language and the order of events, this book argues that
the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the
endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility,
allegorically, at a given time. Through attentive readings of a
range of texts--including theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper
reports, and "live" television broadcasts--"In the Event"
elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of
continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium)
and what we take it to represent.
Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the
order of language and the order of events, this book argues that
the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the
endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility,
allegorically, at a given time. Through attentive readings of a
range of texts--including theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper
reports, and "live" television broadcasts--"In the Event"
elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of
continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium)
and what we take it to represent.
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