Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Meredith L. Goldsmith, professor of English at Ursinus College, is coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s and American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity. Emily J. Orlando, professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair at Fairfield University, is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton and the annotated edition of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses.Contributors: Ferdâ Asya William Blazek Rita Bode Donna Campbell Mary Carney Clare Virginia Eby June Howard Meredith L. Goldsmith Sharon Kim D. Medina Lasansky Maureen Montgomery Emily J. Orlando Margaret A. Toth Gary Totten

“An important and timely work that insists on new connections not only within Wharton’s oeuvre but also with a range of international texts and contexts. The collection demands that we view Wharton as seriously engaged with the theorization of national and international identity (and responsibility) in the period during which she was writing—questions that we are still grappling with today.”—Edith Wharton Review“Establish[es] the importance of seeing Wharton’s writing through cosmopolitanism and through the linked frameworks of race and nation.”—American Literary Realism“Embark[s] on a project that is both productively reparative and excitingly innovative. . . . It provides a foundational contribution to future conversations about race and otherness in early twentieth-century American fiction.”—Studies in American Naturalism