Ebook: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Bringing together leading scholars from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton is a new collection of critical essays on the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing on her life, copious writings, cultural influences, and lasting impact.
Featuring essays in areas as diverse as:
Wharton’s relationship to theories of race, whiteness, queerness, age studies, and disability studies;
Discussions of the modes of representation Wharton engaged (or resisted) such as novels, poetry, short fiction, travel writing, drama, and film;
Comparative studies between Wharton and such writers as Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather;
The places Wharton documented in her travel writing such as Italy, France, Morocco, and Greece;
Wharton’s work as a reader and writer and her intersections with the digital humanities.
This collection conceives Wharton’s 20th- and 21st-century presence as in-print and digital, global and inclusive, with a lasting impact on readers and the world of literature and writing. It is an indispensable resource for 21st-century scholars and students interested in Edith Wharton in particular and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture in general.