The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or ge

Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-sell

A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these