Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions - Series page

pp ii-ii

The New Edith Wharton Studies - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xi

Editions and Abbreviations

pp xii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Self and Composition

pp 13-62

Chapter 1 - Creative Process and Literary Form in Edith Wharton’s Archive

pp 15-31

Chapter 2 - Wharton’s Letters: Glimpses of the Whole Edith Wharton

pp 32-47

Chapter 3 - Edith Wharton and the Business of the Magazine Short Story

pp 48-62

Part II - International Wharton

pp 63-110

Chapter 4 - Edith Wharton’s Odyssey

pp 65-79

Chapter 5 - Edith Wharton’s French Engagement

pp 80-95

Chapter 6 - Edith Wharton and Transnationalism

pp 96-110

Part III - Wharton on the Margins

pp 111-172

Chapter 7 - Edith Wharton’s Unprivileged Lives

pp 113-128

Chapter 8 - Wharton, Insurance Culture, and Pain Management

pp 129-142

Chapter 9 - Edith Wharton’s Humanimal Pity

pp 143-157

Chapter 10 - Edith Wharton and the Writing of Whiteness

pp 158-172

Part IV - Sex and Gender Revisited

pp 173-230

Chapter 11 - Women, Art, and the Natural World in Edith Wharton’s Works

pp 175-188

Chapter 12 - Wharton and the Romance Plot

pp 189-201

Chapter 13 - Masculine Modernity: Fathers, Sons, and Generational Absolution in Wharton’s Fiction

pp 202-216

Chapter 14 - Wharton’s Wayward Girls

pp 217-230

Bibliography

pp 231-246

Index

pp 247-262