@article{940678,
      author = {Rattray, Laura,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/940678},
      title = {Edith Wharton and genre : beyond fiction /},
      abstract = {'In Rattrays hands, Edith Wharton is re-presented as a  writer mastering a wide range of genres beyond the  celebrated fiction. Whartons achievements in poetry, drama,  architecture and design, criticism, memoir, and travel  writing emerge as sites for her most confident, radical  experiments. This game-changing book will lay to rest the  image of the grand dame, showing Wharton to defy  categorization and to be as "large" and full of  "multitudes" as the Whitman she so admired. -- Emily J.  Orlando, Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA,  and author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts (2007)  Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and  Genre: Beyond Fiction offers the first study of Whartons  full engagement with original writing in genres outside  those with which she has been most closely identified. So  much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story  writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a  controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing  travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a  hugely influential design writer, and an author who  overturned the conventions of autobiographical form. Her  versatility across genres did not represent brief  sidesteps, temporary diversions from what has long been  read as her primary role as novelist. Each was pursued  fully and whole-heartedly, speaking to Whartons very sense  of herself as an artist and her connected vision of  artistry and art. The stories of these other Edith  Whartons, born through her extraordinary dexterity across a  wide range of genres, and their impact on our understanding  of her career, are the focus of this new study, revealing a  bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than  has long been supposed.},
      recid = {940678},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}