Contents
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