"This is an exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative, begins with two canonical American texts. Ultimately, the pregnancy narrative in popular film and fiction provides a remarkabl
Edith Wharton (1862?1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as an
Ritual occasions in the movies can bring us to laughter and tears and hope and regret; the chords they strike suggest the complex intersection between American movies and our lives. Major ritual occas
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve
