"These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and

American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.�

Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding Edith Wharton's life and career.

This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.