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Edith Wharton
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: Edith Wharton was an American novelist who was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1927 and received the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Themes that are prevalent in her works are social status and morality.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Edith Whartons works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under Wharton, Edith, and under individual titles, i.e. The Age of Innocence.
Benstock, Shari. No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton. New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1994.
Goodman, Susan. Edith
Wharton's Inner Circle. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic.
Books written by and about Edith Wharton have the call numbers (s) PS 3545 H16
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography
REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction
REF Z 1231 F4G4 The American Novel
REF Z 1231.F4K45 1991 The Modern American Novel
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
08/16/2007
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