Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction

Margarida Cadima is an ecocriticism scholar whose research focuses on Edith Wharton, transatlantic literature, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton's Fiction.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. GARDENS, Chapter 1. The Pastoral Cosmopolitanism of the (Not So) Secret Garden; Chapter 2. American Back Grounds; Chapter 3. Garden “Haunts”; Chapter 4. Central Park as an “Ecological Threshold”?; Chapter 5. French Gardens and Their Meaning; PART II. MOUNTAINS, Chapter 6. “Endless Plays of Mountain Forms”: Mapping the Mountains; Chapter 7. Edith Wharton’s European Mountains of Leisure; Chapter 8. Rural Americana and the “New World” Mountains; PART III. RUIN/ATION Chapter 9. Romantic Ruins? Edith Wharton’s Sedimented Vision ; Chapter 10. “Old” Ruins as a Melancholic Object and a Critique of Empire; Chapter 11. Stony Waste—The “New Ruin” in the Modern Metropolis and Garden Ruins; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Spring in a French Riviera Garden; Appendix 2: December in a French Rivera Garden; Bibliography; Index

“Margarida Cadima’s Pastoral Cosmopolitanism is a fresh and original contribution to Wharton studies. Cadima brings us, through an ecocritical lens, new and infinitely suggestive ways to read both the most familiar and unfamiliar of Wharton’s fictional landscapes. It is no exaggeration to suggest that Cadima’s work marks a major new turn in Wharton criticism.” — Professor Dame Janet Beer (Emeritus), University of Liverpool