{"product_id":"9780230361669","title":"Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction","description":"Based on extensive new archival research, \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton and Genre: Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form. Her \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e versatility across genres did not represent brief sidesteps, temporary diversions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e from what has long been read as her primary role as novelist. Each was pursued \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e fully and whole—heartedly, speaking to Wharton’s very sense of herself as an \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e artist and her connected vision of artistry and art. The stories of these other Edith \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Whartons, born through her extraordinary dexterity across a wide range of \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e genres, and their impact on our understanding of her career, are the focus of this \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e new study, revealing a bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e has long been supposed. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46240563822833,"sku":"9780230361669","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780230361669_p0.jpg?v=1765321487","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780230361669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}