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A Son at the Front
A Son at the Front
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  • Marks 100 years since the publication of Edith Wharton's novel of the First World War
  • A corrected and reliable text, offering the novel as Wharton wanted it
  • Explanatory notes illuminate the novel's numerous artistic and literary references
  • A thorough and up-to-date introduction explores the novel's composition history, its historical situation, its literary context, and its status as war literature
  • Includes maps covering John Campton's Paris and the battlefields mentioned in the novel

       
'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.'
    
In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted.
    
Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.    

 

目次: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Edith Wharton
Maps
   
A Son at the Front
    
Explanatory Notes

著者について: 

Edith Wharton
Edited by Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Le Moyne College
   
Julie Olin-Ammentorp is Professor of English at Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY). She is the author of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture (2019) and Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War (2004), as well as of many articles and book chapters, including essays in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton (ed. Emily Orlando, 2022) and The New Edith Wharton Studies (ed. Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray, 2020). She is a past president of the Edith Wharton Society and serves on the editorial board of The Edith Wharton Review.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198859550

著者: 
Edith Wharton; Julie Olin-Ammentorp
ページ
320 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 196 mm
刊行日
2023年03月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
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A Son at the Front

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