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

• List of FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. Edith Wharton: A Citizen of the World Meredith L. Goldsmith and Emily J. OrlandoPart 1. Cosmopolitan Ideas and Ideals1. The Glimpses of the Moon and the Transatlantic Debate over Marital Reform Clare Virginia Eby2. Motifs of Anarchism in Edith Wharton’s The Children Ferdâ Asya3. “The Very Beginning of Things”: Reading Wharton through Charles Eliot Norton’s Life and Writings on Italy William BlazekPart 2. Cosmopolitan Places: From Italy to New York and Back4. Wharton’s Italian Women: “My Beloved Romola” Rita Bode5. Possessing Italy: Wharton and American Tourists Maureen E. Montgomery6. Beyond the Guidebook: Edith Wharton’s Rediscovery of San Vivaldo D. Medina Lasansky7. Here/There, Now/Then, Both/And: Regionalism and Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Old New York June HowardPart 3. Cosmopolitan Aesthetics8. The Cosmopolitan at War: Edith Wharton and Transnational Material Culture Mary Carney9. “Eyes Filled with Splendor”: On Italy and the Saturated Gaze in The Custom of the Country Sharon Kim10. Orientalism, Modernism, and Gender in Edith Wharton’s Late Novels Margaret A. TothAfterword: Edith Wharton and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism Gary TottenList of ContributorsIndex