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Overview"Whartonian Landscapes sets forth how the ""greening"" of Wharton's private and public writings contributes to exciting strands in cultural geography and recent post-colonial theory: for example, biological and political constructions of citizenship, mobility, race, and nation; hospitality and hostility towards the ""Other""; fraught experiences of exile and competing conceptions of home/land; trans/national selfhood; the figure of the nomad, the outcast, or the wanderer. Ultimately, it will address that: what are the issues, broadly speaking what motivates an eco-criticism, how does that address the challenges of cultural geography, why can we uncover meaning by turning to Wharton? The argument made is that a reading of Wharton's fiction can help reveal how to understand those issues. This book situates Wharton as an author who is acutely responsive to pastoral tropes and terrain, among other species of spaces. She addresses the affective and geographical resonances of such sites, especially sparsely populated localities and landforms voguish mountain resorts, private ornamental gardens, lush public parks, monumental and ""sham"" ruins which offered pampered American socialites a brief escape from the ""welter"". I wish to complicate popular perceptions of ""Wharton's world"" reinforced by numerous handsomely produced cinematic and television adaptations of her novels as one rooted in often opulent domestic interiors with their waspish social cliques, strict rules of politesse and elaborate hierarchies. Indeed, one of the central aims of this book is to treat pastoral as a kind of palimpsest a ""parchment"" upon which successive generations of artist-pilgrims have etched their impressions, constantly revising its imagery, formal procedures, and lyrical effects. This notion of the palimpsest also reinforces how my research seeks to extend the range of Wharton studies. First of all, my close reading of selected texts adds another ""layer"" of sophistication to the ever-evolving field of ecocriticism, whose core ideas and critical standpoints have assumed both an urgency and galvanising potency given the seismic upheaval to our material localities around the globe some of the most damaging tornadoes in US history; flooding in the American Midwest; devastating earthquakes in Haiti, China and Japan; stronger and more extensive wildfires in the American Southwest." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margarida CadimaPublisher: Anthem Press Imprint: Anthem Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781839988431ISBN 10: 1839988436 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 11 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. GARDENS, Chapter 1. The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden; Chapter 2. American Back Grounds; Chapter 3. Garden “Haunts”; Chapter 4. Central Park as an “Ecological Threshold”?; Chapter 5. French Gardens and Their Meaning; PART II. MOUNTAINS, Chapter 6. “Endless Plays of Mountain Forms”: Mapping the Mountains; Chapter 7. Edith Wharton’s European Mountains of Leisure; Chapter 8. Rural Americana and the “New World” Mountains; PART III. RUIN/ATION Chapter 9. Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton’s Sedimented Vision ; Chapter 10. “Old” Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire; Chapter 11. Stony Waste—The “New Ruin” in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Spring in a French Riviera Garden; Appendix 2: December in a French Rivera Garden; Bibliography; IndexReviews“Margarida Cadima’s Pastoral Cosmopolitanism is a fresh and original contribution to Wharton studies. Cadima brings us, through an ecocritical lens, new and infinitely suggestive ways to read both the most familiar and unfamiliar of Wharton’s fictional landscapes. It is no exaggeration to suggest that Cadima’s work marks a major new turn in Wharton criticism.” — Professor Dame Janet Beer (Emeritus), University of Liverpool “Margarida Cadima’s sweeping study of gardens, parklands, mountains, and ruins in Wharton’s fic-tion clearly reveals the fraught interdependencies of urban and rural, elite and impoverished, con-sumption and waste of resources, which speak as much to readers today as they did to the global traveler and author when she was writing.” — Etta M. Madden, Emerita Professor of English, Missouri State University and Author of Engaging Italy: American Women Writers Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks Author InformationMargarida Cadima is an ecocriticism scholar and an adjunct professor in the English Writing, Literature, and Publishing department at The American University of Rome. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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