Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

Preface
Dale M. Bauer

Foreword
Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler

1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies
Emily J. Orlando

Part One Edith Wharton and Identity

2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith
Wharton's Twilight Sleep
Meredith L. Goldsmith

3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane's Closet Shannon Brennan

4 Picturing Edith Wharton's Modern Woman: Gender and the Social
Construction of Age
Melanie V. Dawson

5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree, The Shadow of a
Doubt, and Ethan Frome
Maria-Novella Mercuri

Part Two Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel

6 "Social Order and Individual Appetites": Edith Wharton's Short Stories, 1891-1904
Paul J. Ohler

7 Edith Wharton in Verse
Emily Setina

8 Edith Wharton and Film
Donna M. Campbell


Part Three Influences and Intertextualities

9 "The Chill Joy of Renunciation": Feminine Sacrifice in Edith Wharton
and Christina Rossetti
Margaret Jay Jessee

10 Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Beyond "Surface Differences"
Julie Olin-Ammentorp

11 Consciousness in Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Reef
and The Golden Bowl
Jill Kress Karn

Part Four Global and Cultural Contexts

12 Edith Wharton and the Narratives of Travel and Tourism
Gary Totten

13 Seeking a Home for the Wretched Exotics: Edith Wharton's
Heterotopic Views of Greece
Myrto Drizou

14 "Totally Vanished...Like a Pinch of Dust": Edith Wharton and
the Trope of Cultural Extinction
Nir Evron

15 Edith Wharton and Pleasure
Virginia Ricard

16 The Mermaid as Capitalist: Networking and Upward Mobility in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
Francesca Sawaya

Part Five Edith Wharton's Library

17 Reading the Reader: Edith Wharton's Library, Digital Methods,
and the Uses of Data
Sheila Liming

18 The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Preparing the First
Authoritative Edition
Carol J. Singley, Donna M. Campbell and Frederick Wegener

Afterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century
Elaine Showalter

Bibliography

Index

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• Obras literárias de referência
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900

US literature; feminist criticism; critical race; whiteness studies; queer studies; age studies; disability studies; film studies; anthropology; digital humanities