Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction

<p>1. Introduction.- 2.&nbsp;Part I. Culture and History:&nbsp;Chapter 1. Reading in Three Dimensions: Using Material Culture to Teach The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.- 3.&nbsp;Chapter 2. Getting to Know the Community: Using Raymond Williams’s Concept of “Knowable Communities” to Teach Wharton’s Summer.- 4.&nbsp;Chapter 3. Using Women Reporting War to Teach Edith Wharton’s “Writing a War&nbsp;Story”: An Added Context for Gendered Writing.- 5.&nbsp;Chapter 4. An Argument for Teaching The Marne: A Long Overlooked Example of&nbsp;Wharton’s Wartime Writings. - 6.&nbsp;Chapter 5. Historicizing Adaptation: The Age of Innocence in the Context of 1930s&nbsp;Hollywood. - 7.&nbsp;Part II. Wharton and Other Authors:&nbsp;Chapter 1. Survival versus Thriving: Social Mobility in Edith Wharton’s&nbsp;The House of Mirth and Edna Ferber’s So Big.- 8.&nbsp;Chapter 2. Developing Sympathy: Teaching Edith Wharton’s Summer with Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel.- 8.&nbsp;Chapter 3. Teaching Edith Wharton and Henry James in The Netherlands.- 9.&nbsp;Part III. Wharton and Critical Lenses:&nbsp;Chapter 1. “Granite Outcroppings but Half-Emerged from the Soil”:&nbsp;Using Ethan Frome in a Gateway Course for the English Major.- 10.&nbsp;Chapter 2. “We’re near each other only if we stay far from each other”: Teaching Psychoanalytic Desire in The Age of Innocence.- 11.&nbsp;Chapter 3. Social Darwinism, Feminism, and Performative Identity in Wharton’s “The Last Asset”.- 12.&nbsp;Chapter 4. Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and the History of Literary Scholarship.- 13.&nbsp;Part IV. Wharton and Interdisciplinary Contexts:&nbsp;Chapter 1. Modeling Addiction: Teaching The House of Mirth in the Context of Addiction Studies.- 14.&nbsp;Chapter 2. Ecoliteracy and Edith Wharton: The Ecosomatic Paradigm and the Poetics of Paratexts in Ethan Frome.- 15.&nbsp;Chapter 3. Teaching Edith Wharton’s The Children in The Anarchist Tradition in&nbsp;Literature Course.- 16.&nbsp;Part V. Wharton and the World Today:&nbsp;Chapter 1. Wharton Goes Online: Reimagining the Traditional Graduate Seminar.- 17.&nbsp;Chapter 2. Students Abroad - in the Classroom: A Transatlantic Assignment on Wharton’s “Roman Fever”.- 18.&nbsp;Chapter 3. Slouching toward the Posthuman: Teaching Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep.</p><br><br>