Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Edith Wharton: A Citizen of the World
Meredith L. Goldsmith and Emily J. Orlando

Part 1. Cosmopolitan Ideas and Ideals

1. The Glimpses of the Moon and the Transatlantic Debate over Marital Reform
Clare Virginia Eby

2. Motifs of Anarchism in Edith Wharton's The Children
Ferdâ Asya

3. ?The Very Beginning of Things?: Reading Wharton through Charles Eliot Norton's Life and Writings on Italy
William Blazek

Part 2. Cosmopolitan Places: From Italy to New York and Back

4. Wharton's Italian Women: ?My Beloved Romola?
Rita Bode

5. Possessing Italy: Wharton and American Tourists
Maureen E. Montgomery

6. Beyond the Guidebook: Edith Wharton's Rediscovery of San Vivaldo
D. Medina Lasansky

7. Here/There, Now/Then, Both/And: Regionalism and Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton's Old New York
June Howard

Part 3. Cosmopolitan Aesthetics

8. The Cosmopolitan at War: Edith Wharton and Transnational Material Culture
Mary Carney

9. ?Eyes Filled with Splendor?: On Italy and the Saturated Gaze in The Custom of the Country
Sharon Kim

10. Orientalism, Modernism, and Gender in Edith Wharton's Late Novels
Margaret A. Toth

Afterword: Edith Wharton and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism
Gary Totten

List of Contributors

Index