Titlebook: Edith Wharton and Genre; Beyond Fiction Laura Rattray Book 20201st edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 Edith Whart

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2634-579X erstanding of her career, are the focus of this.new study, revealing a bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than.has long been supposed..978-1-349-59559-4978-1-349-59557-0Series ISSN 2634-579X Series E-ISSN 2634-5803

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Introduction,ariety of genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, criticism and literary theory, travel writing, and autobiography, as well as writing on architecture and design. This diverse narrative has been obscured over the years, however, primarily by the fascination with Wharton as a novelist

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Travel Writings, Wharton’s fiction in recent years, it is at times in her travel texts that the modernist dynamics of her writing are most clearly on display, with work that both advertises modernity and journeys into the past. The chapter challenges biographical assumptions, which have contributed to readings of t

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Architecture and Design,of architecture, Wharton’s work in this field is not entirely original, but its scholarship and authority would elevate American public discourse on interior design and architecture to another level. At the end of the nineteenth century, and beginning of the twentieth, much of Wharton’s professional

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Critical Writings and Literary Theory,bversive. At times Wharton sets out an alternative, explicitly feminist critical agenda, while more broadly her work in this field, notably . (1925), often opens up possibilities, argues against narrow thinking, against standardisation, sets a different range of priorities. And the immediate audienc

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Life Writings,ontribution to both a personal and national record, including ways in which she explicitly links her story to the story of America itself, with the author increasingly concerned about a legacy image. Wharton’s published autobiographical writing taps into a popular market, but also resists that marke