StartseiteEdith Wharton and the Great War in France
Veröffentlicht am mardi, 27. mai 2014
Zusammenfassung
The talk is about Edith Wharton's commitment to Paris and to France from 1914 to 1918. A wealthy and famous expatriate American novelist, who had been living mainly in Paris since 1907, she used her fame, money, writing and influence in the service of France and dedicated her considerable energies (Henry James called her the great "generalissima") to persuading her American countrymen to enter the war. In the anniversary year of the outbreak of the First World War, Edith Wharton's role in war-time Franco-American relations makes a dramatic story, well worth reconsidering.
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Argument
Public talk organized by the Paris IAS, 18:00 - 20:00.
- Hermione Lee, invited professor at the Paris IAS
Professor Dame Hermione Lee is President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Formerly Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford, Hermione Lee has written widely on women writers, American literature, life-writing, and modern fiction. She has notably published major biographies of women writers, including lives of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2007) and Penelope Fitzgerald (2013).
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Orte
- Inscription obligatoire via le site internet de l'IEA de Paris - 17 Quai d'Anjou
Paris, Frankreich (75004)
Daten
- lundi, 23. juin 2014
Schlüsselwörter
- Edith Wharton, World War One, Franco-American relations
Kontakt
- Simon Luck
courriel : simon [dot] luck [at] paris-iea [dot] fr
Verweis-URLs
Informationsquelle
- Lisette Winkler
courriel : lisette [dot] winkler [at] paris-iea [dot] fr
Zitierhinweise
« Edith Wharton and the Great War in France », Sonstige Angaben, Calenda, Veröffentlicht am mardi, 27. mai 2014, https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/287159
