Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University, USA.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Dale M. BauerForeword Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies Emily J. OrlandoPart One Edith Wharton and Identity2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep Meredith L. Goldsmith3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane’s Closet Shannon Brennan4 Picturing Edith Wharton’s Modern Woman: Gender and the Social Construction of Age Melanie V. Dawson5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree, The Shadow of aDoubt, and Ethan Frome Maria-Novella MercuriPart Two Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel6 “Social Order and Individual Appetites”: Edith Wharton’s Short Stories, 1891-1904 Paul J. Ohler7 Edith Wharton in Verse Emily Setina8 Edith Wharton and Film Donna M. CampbellPart Three Influences and Intertextualities9 “The Chill Joy of Renunciation”: Feminine Sacrifice in Edith Wharton and Christina Rossetti Margaret Jay Jessee10 Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Beyond “Surface Differences” Julie Olin-Ammentorp11 Consciousness in Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Reef and The Golden Bowl Jill Kress KarnPart Four Global and Cultural Contexts12 Edith Wharton and the Narratives of Travel and Tourism Gary Totten13 Seeking a Home for the Wretched Exotics: Edith Wharton’s Heterotopic Views of Greece Myrto Drizou14 “Totally Vanished…Like a Pinch of Dust”: Edith Wharton and the Trope of Cultural Extinction Nir Evron15 Edith Wharton and Pleasure Virginia Ricard16 The Mermaid as Capitalist: Networking and Upward Mobility in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the CountryFrancesca SawayaPart Five Edith Wharton’s Library17 Reading the Reader: Edith Wharton’s Library, Digital Methods, and the Uses of Data Sheila Liming18 The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Preparing the First Authoritative Edition Carol J. Singley, Donna M. Campbell and Frederick WegenerAfterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century Elaine ShowalterBibliography Index

Orlando’s cleverly curated collection of essays provides new perspectives on Wharton that allow contemporary scholars to read the author afresh.