Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction

Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s FictionOne of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

Drawing on extensive cross-national research

the stage history of the play

she came to the UK and became a child psychotherapist

Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations

This is the first study of Méliès's films to appear in English in over twenty years and the only book to interpret his work using the tools of modern film analysis

This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power

and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’

Applying ideas from feminist cultural studies to the analysis of film

This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development

A new set of problems--involving the environment

The contributors include eminent academics

Silvia Fok opens a new line of inquiry about contemporary art in a rapidly changing environment