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Pullman Campus: CAH Public Lecture by Donna Campbell & Team
May 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Unknown Edith Wharton: Secrets from the Unpublished Archives
Venue: Neill Public Library, Pullman
Speakers
Dr. Donna Campbell, Professor, Department of English
Sara Brock, PhD Student, Department of English
Sezin Zorlu, PhD Student, Department of English
Nazua Idris, PhD Candidate, Department of English
Description
Known today through movie adaptations of her novels such as The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993), The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000), and the forthcoming adaptation of The Custom of the Country (Sofia Coppola, 2023), Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, in 1921, and has long been considered one of America’s finest writers. Often associated with Gilded Age society and then-scandalous topics such as divorce, Wharton also turned a critical eye toward rural poverty and the limited options for unmarried women. But in addition to her well-known novels and short stories, Wharton left an archive of fiction, drama, and poetry that has until now remained unpublished.
Under the direction of Professor Donna Campbell, WSU graduate students Sara Brock, Nazua Idris, and Sezin Zorlu have been transcribing and editing Wharton’s unpublished works as part of a 30-volume series, The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, to be published by Oxford University Press. In “The Unknown Edith Wharton” we’ll be talking about Wharton’s life and works, explaining our methods of scholarly editing, and sharing the hidden treasures and surprises we’ve found in the process.
David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities
Washington State University
arts.humanities@wsu.edu