This approach works best when Wharton is taught in a comparative context with other novels by American women writers of the Progressive Era, such as Edna Ferber, Jesse Redmon Fauset, or Zora Neale Hurston. This chapter focuses on teaching Wharton's The House of Mirth alongside Ferber's ...
…then played the lead inSo Big(1932), a truncated version of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. For the remainder of the early 1930s, Wellman made a series of melodramas—with some aerial adventure mixed in—before turning to the pre-Code gemWild Boys of the...