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The "critical" work of edited collections: re-viewing the texts of Willa Cather and Edith Wharton.(Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination)(Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth": A Casebook)(Book Review)

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From: College Literature
Date: 20050922
Author:Jackson, Phoebe

Rosowski, Susan J., ed. 2003. Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination. Cather Studies. Vol. 5. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $35.00 sc. xiv + 327 pp.

Singley, Carol J., ed. 2003. Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth": A Casebook. Casebooks in Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $24.95 sc. 352 pp.

In literary studies, edited collections of essays, which typically focus on a given author and/or her work, offer the decided advantage of pulling together knowledgeable critics to explore a specific topic, thereby bringing together new material from multiple ...

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