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58 | Spring 2012
Special issue: The Short Stories of Edith Wharton

 

ORDERING INFORMATION

The issue can be ordered by contacting catherine.dupuy@univ-angers.fr at the Presses Universitaires d'Angers. It will be online in June 2014.

 

CONTENTS

 Linda Collinge-Germain
Foreword                                                                               

  Virginia Ricard                                                                      

 Introduction                                                                           

  Sarah Whitehead                                                                   

Make It Short: Edith Wharton’s Modernist Practices in her Short Stories     

  David Malcolm                                                                       

Breaches of Realist Conventions in Edith Wharton’s Short Fiction    

  Robin Peel                                                                               

Realism and Ritual in the Italian Short Stories of Edith Wharton

  Audrey Giboux                                                                       

The Epistolary Motif and Literary Creation in Edith Wharton’s Short Stories: Narrative, Aesthetic and Moral Issues                                                                                               

  Agnès Berbinau-Dezalay                                                       

Reading and readers in Edith Wharton’s short stories            

 Joanna Scutts                                                                         

“Writing a War Story”: The Female Author and the Challenge of Witnessing          

 William Blazek                                                                        

Reading the Ruins: “Coming Home,” Wharton’s Atrocity Story of the First World War      

 Gary Totten                                                                            

Imagining the American West in Wharton’s Short Fiction      

 Nancy Von Rosk                                                                     

Prince Charming or Animal Bridegroom?: Fairy Tale Elements in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”      

 Jennifer Haytock                                                                    

The Dogs of “Kerfol”: Animals, Authorship, and Wharton   

 Gina Rossetti                                                                          

Old Entanglements: Spectral Spouses in Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” and “Pomegranate Seed”    

 Michael Pantazzi                                                                    

A Face of One’s Own: Edith Wharton and the Portrait in her Short Fiction             

  Brigitte Zaugg

The Art of Irresolution in Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”                      

 Joseph Urbas                                                                          

“Sermons in Stone”: Théophile Gautier’s Emaux et Camées and Edith Wharton’s “The Eyes”    

 Virginia Ricard                                                                       

 Bibliography