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

This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly

A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing ca

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in