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No Gifts from Chance

A Biography of Edith Wharton

By: Shari Benstock

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No Gifts from Chance

A Biography of Edith Wharton

By: Shari Benstock

The first new biography of America's foremost woman of letters in twenty years, No Gifts from Chance presents an Edith Wharton for our times. Far from the emotionally withdrawn and neurasthenic victim of earlier portraits, she is revealed here as an ambitious, disciplined, and self-determined woman who fashioned life to her own desires. Drawing on government records, legal and medical documents, and recently opened collections of Wharton's letters, Shari Benstock's biography offers new information on what have been called the key mysteries of her life: the question of her paternity, her troubled relations with her mother and older brothers, her marriage to manic-depressive Teddy Wharton, and her extramarital affair with Morton Fullerton.

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University of Texas Press

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0292792700

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9780292792708

Women of the Left Bank

Paris, 1900-1940

By: Shari Benstock

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Women of the Left Bank

Paris, 1900-1940

By: Shari Benstock

A “valuable and intriguing” study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR). Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment in modern literary history. "Shari Benstock . . . weaves together, with great skill, the histories of an extraordinary group of talented women—publishers like Sylvia Beach, Caresse Crosby, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, novelists Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Edith Wharton. She examines in some depth the writing produced by poets, journalists and novelists, thus combining literary criticism and social history in a seamless running narrative.” —NPR “Through their writings, including unpublished and newly available documentary sources of the period, Djuna Barnes, Nancy Cunard, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and others are revealed as significant in the development of modernism, imagism and other avant-garde movements in which they were overshadowed or ignored by their male counterparts. . . . Benstock tracks the sexually liberated lifestyles and the creative originality of these women with a wealth of documentation.” —Publishers Weekly “An inspiration, setting a standard for literary history and feminist criticism that will be difficult to surpass.” —American Literature

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University of Texas Press

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0292782985

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9780292782983

No Gifts from Chance

A Biography of Edith Wharton

By: Shari Benstock

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A Biography of Edith Wharton

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Women of the Left Bank

Paris, 1900-1940

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Paris, 1900-1940

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A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

By: Shari Benstock,Associate Professor of Liberal Arts Suzanne Ferriss,Suzanne Ferriss,Susanne Woods

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A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

By: Shari Benstock,Associate Professor of Liberal Arts Suzanne Ferriss,Suzanne Ferriss,Susanne Woods

The second section provides an explanation and analysis of trends in feminist criticism and theory, focusing on how feminist approaches to women's texts have incorporated theoretical investigations of sexuality, subjectivity, and ideology.".

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0195102061

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No Gifts from Chance

No Gifts from Chance

Women of the Left Bank

Women of the Left Bank

No Gifts from Chance

No Gifts from Chance

Women of the Left Bank

Women of the Left Bank

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

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