The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Emily Orlando

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350349759
• eBook ISBN: 9781350182950
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Women Authors
• Index: Literature

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies
• Part One Edith Wharton and Identity
• Part Two Edith Wharton beyond the Novel
• Part Three Influences and Intertextualities
• Part Four Global and Cultural Contexts
• Part Five Edith Wharton’s Library
• Afterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century
• Bibliography
• Note on Contributors
• Index
• Copyright Page