A notable exception is Thomas Hemmeter, who reads Shadow of a Doubt “as a critique of the patriarchal ideology it represents” (Hemmeter: 221). The Hitchcock oeuvre has regularly been debated as the site of patriarchal ideology. Poems by Sylvia Plath were deciphered in carbon paper hidden in the back of an old notebook, offering a glimpse of how the poet worked with her then husband, fellow poet Ted Hughes.The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Part Two, Gone Girlīy Elaine Lennon Volume 27, Issue 1-2 / February 2023 78 minutes (19414 words) Their discovery comes as academics found unseen work by another female literary giant. Rattray and Chinery, who have published their findings in the new issue of the Edith Wharton Review, met last summer at a conference devoted to Wharton and decided to join forces. When The Shadow of a Doubt was written, Wharton, then 39, was not yet a novelist, and had published only shorter fiction and poetry. She was also nominated three times for the Nobel prize in literature. “Yet the discovery of The Shadow of a Doubt also develops new thinking and proves of profound influence on our understanding of Wharton’s work as a novelist.”īorn in 1862, Wharton won the Pulitzer prize for The Age of Innocence, published in 1920. “Well before the publication of her first novel, we can now ascertain that Wharton was establishing herself as a playwright, deeply engaged in both the creative and business aspects of the theatre – playwriting more important to her at this time than establishing herself as a novelist. Rattray said: “The late 19th and early years of the 20th century cover a pivotal, formative period of Wharton’s career, about which scholars still have less information than they would like. It is not referenced in major Wharton biographies, and other plays are all unfinished manuscripts and typescripts held in the archives at Yale University. Character list for Edith Wharton’s typescript draft
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