Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

“These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton’s writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies.”—Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

“Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton’s engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works.”—Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War

“An important and timely work that insists on new connections not only within Wharton’s oeuvre but also with a range of international texts and contexts. The collection demands that we view Wharton as seriously engaged with the theorization of national and international identity (and responsibility) in the period during which she was writing—questions that we are still grappling with today.”—Edith Wharton Review

“Establish[es] the importance of seeing Wharton’s writing through cosmopolitanism and through the linked frameworks of race and nation.”—American Literary Realism

“Embark[s] on a project that is both productively reparative and excitingly innovative. . . . It provides a foundational contribution to future conversations about race and otherness in early twentieth-century American fiction.”—Studies in American Naturalism