Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Shari Benstock: Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: A Brief Biography
2: Edith Wharton in Her Time
3: Martha Banta: Wharton's Women: In Fashion, In History, Out of Time
4: Cecelia Tichi: Emerson, Darwin, and The Custom of the Country
5: Dale M. Bauer: Wharton's "Others": Addiction and Intimacy
6: Nancy Bentley: Wharton, Travel, and Modernity
7: Eleanor Dwight: Wharton and Art
8: Linda Costanzo Cahir: Wharton and the Age of Film
9: Illustrated Chronology
10: Clare Colquitt: Bibliographic Essay: Visions and Revisions of Wharton
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Carol J. Singley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden. She is past president of the Edith Wharton Society.

Reviews

"Expertly assembled and introduced by Carol J. Singley, the Oxford volume amply verifies what one of its contributors calls the 'recuperation of Wharton's reputation' and 'the thriving state of Wharton scholarship today'.... [An] absorbing and provocative collection of essays."--Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
"Expertly assembled and introduced by Carol J. Singley, the Oxford volume amply verifies what one of its contributors calls the 'recuperation of Wharton's reputation' and 'the thriving state of Wharton scholarship today'.... [An] absorbing and provocative collection of essays."--Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers