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Papers by Carol Singley
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2022
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers... more Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped move women's literature into a new place of achievement and prominence. The House of Mirth is perhaps Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel, and scholars and teachers consider it an essential introduction to Wharton and her work. The novel, moreover, lends itself to a variety of topics of inquiry and critical approaches of interest to readers at various levels. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches. It also includes Wharton's introduction to the 1936 edition of the novel and her discussion of the composition of the novel from her autobiography.
Edith Wharton's twenty-eight-year marriage produced no biological children, but she had a lif... more Edith Wharton's twenty-eight-year marriage produced no biological children, but she had a lifelong interest in the welfare of the young and created many fictional juvenile portraits. Children are the explicit focus of her short story ‘The Mission of Jane’ (1902), and her novels Summer (1917) and The Children (1928), but Wharton's explorations of child-rearing also appear in novels about women climbing the social ladder. Nowhere are the effects of parenting on childhood more evident than in The Custom of the Country . The Custom of the Country is set in the early 1900s and published in 1913, and is in some ways a companion novel to The House of Mirth , set in the same period and published in 1905. Both novels of manners tell the story of poorly parented, beautiful and vain women in search of husbands. Both protagonists are essentially, even tragically, ignorant about the true source of happiness. However, Undine Spragg seizes every opportunity for success and is driven by a r...
CULTURES OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION, EDITED BY TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN, DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRE... more CULTURES OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION, EDITED BY TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN, DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 Critical studies of adoption, long the province of psychology and social work, now appear in many disciplines as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, women's studies, and childhood studies. Reflecting this development is Toby Alice Volkman's well-designed volume of essays. Cultures of Transnational Adoption does the important work of interrogating the permeable boundaries between personal and national identity as defined by kinship. Addressing issues within the context of ever-expanding, globalized cultural economies, the volume acknowledges and responds to a virtual explosion of discourses related to adoption: a surge in the numbers of transnational adoptions over the past half century; a proliferation of popular literature and film about adoption; and grassroots as well as officially sanctioned advocacy efforts aimed primarily at adoptees and th...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Edith Wharton, a literary realist and naturalist, was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, and n... more Edith Wharton, a literary realist and naturalist, was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction whose work helped to define a major intellectual and aesthetic movement at the turn of the 20th century. As a chronicler of society’s manners and mores as well as morals, Wharton was adept at portraying male and female characters in stifling social situations, variously of their own and others' making. She was especially interested in ways that society's standards shape women's choices, and she boldly articulated characters' longings for roles that give fuller rein to the range of women's emotional and sexual needs. An avid reader of Darwinian science, philosophy, and religion, she often depicted characters trapped by environment or biology but aspiring—vaguely or inarticulately—toward elusive ideals. During her literary career, which spanned over fifty years, Wharton published twenty-five novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence (19...
Choice Reviews Online
... Mrs. Manstey's View and Bunner Sisters are important not only because they analyze urb... more ... Mrs. Manstey's View and Bunner Sisters are important not only because they analyze urban poverty but also because they reveal Wharton's narrative method: the sense of space, light, and architectural details of the settings are entryways to subject mat-ter and the emotional ...
Studies in American Fiction
... de Pizan 35 Christine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials... more ... de Pizan 35 Christine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of Authorship 51 Wendy Wall A Politics of Disguise: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's" Belle-Etoile" and the Narrative Structure of Ambivalence 73 Patricia Hannon Galesia, Jane ...
Writing Center Journal, 1988
American Literary Scholarship, 2008
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Matters of Mind and Spirit, 1995
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2022
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers... more Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped move women's literature into a new place of achievement and prominence. The House of Mirth is perhaps Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel, and scholars and teachers consider it an essential introduction to Wharton and her work. The novel, moreover, lends itself to a variety of topics of inquiry and critical approaches of interest to readers at various levels. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches. It also includes Wharton's introduction to the 1936 edition of the novel and her discussion of the composition of the novel from her autobiography.
Edith Wharton's twenty-eight-year marriage produced no biological children, but she had a lif... more Edith Wharton's twenty-eight-year marriage produced no biological children, but she had a lifelong interest in the welfare of the young and created many fictional juvenile portraits. Children are the explicit focus of her short story ‘The Mission of Jane’ (1902), and her novels Summer (1917) and The Children (1928), but Wharton's explorations of child-rearing also appear in novels about women climbing the social ladder. Nowhere are the effects of parenting on childhood more evident than in The Custom of the Country . The Custom of the Country is set in the early 1900s and published in 1913, and is in some ways a companion novel to The House of Mirth , set in the same period and published in 1905. Both novels of manners tell the story of poorly parented, beautiful and vain women in search of husbands. Both protagonists are essentially, even tragically, ignorant about the true source of happiness. However, Undine Spragg seizes every opportunity for success and is driven by a r...
CULTURES OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION, EDITED BY TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN, DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRE... more CULTURES OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION, EDITED BY TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN, DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 Critical studies of adoption, long the province of psychology and social work, now appear in many disciplines as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, women's studies, and childhood studies. Reflecting this development is Toby Alice Volkman's well-designed volume of essays. Cultures of Transnational Adoption does the important work of interrogating the permeable boundaries between personal and national identity as defined by kinship. Addressing issues within the context of ever-expanding, globalized cultural economies, the volume acknowledges and responds to a virtual explosion of discourses related to adoption: a surge in the numbers of transnational adoptions over the past half century; a proliferation of popular literature and film about adoption; and grassroots as well as officially sanctioned advocacy efforts aimed primarily at adoptees and th...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Edith Wharton, a literary realist and naturalist, was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, and n... more Edith Wharton, a literary realist and naturalist, was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction whose work helped to define a major intellectual and aesthetic movement at the turn of the 20th century. As a chronicler of society’s manners and mores as well as morals, Wharton was adept at portraying male and female characters in stifling social situations, variously of their own and others' making. She was especially interested in ways that society's standards shape women's choices, and she boldly articulated characters' longings for roles that give fuller rein to the range of women's emotional and sexual needs. An avid reader of Darwinian science, philosophy, and religion, she often depicted characters trapped by environment or biology but aspiring—vaguely or inarticulately—toward elusive ideals. During her literary career, which spanned over fifty years, Wharton published twenty-five novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence (19...
Choice Reviews Online
... Mrs. Manstey's View and Bunner Sisters are important not only because they analyze urb... more ... Mrs. Manstey's View and Bunner Sisters are important not only because they analyze urban poverty but also because they reveal Wharton's narrative method: the sense of space, light, and architectural details of the settings are entryways to subject mat-ter and the emotional ...
Studies in American Fiction
... de Pizan 35 Christine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials... more ... de Pizan 35 Christine Moneera Laennec Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of Authorship 51 Wendy Wall A Politics of Disguise: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's" Belle-Etoile" and the Narrative Structure of Ambivalence 73 Patricia Hannon Galesia, Jane ...
Writing Center Journal, 1988
American Literary Scholarship, 2008
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, 2011
Matters of Mind and Spirit, 1995