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In this book, Candace Waid presents an innovative reading of the work of Edith Wharton. Waid examines Wharton's lifelong preoccupation with the place of the American woman writer, which she locates in the context of Wharton's ambivalent reaction to America and American literature. She argues that Wharton used the myth of Persephone to represent both the woman artist and her identification with the daughter who leaves the world of mother to dwe...

A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows William Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labour, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works and early novels, working through many major works, and including more popular fictions and late novels The Signifying Eye reveals Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is read next to Wharton, ...

Steeped in history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of modernism and the avant-garde will be seen.