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xxi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Introduction: Edith Wharton: a citizen of the world / Meredith L. Goldsmith and Emily J. Orlando -- Cosmopolitan ideas and ideals -- Glimpses of the moon and the transatlantic debate over marital reform / Clare Virginia Eby -- Motifs of anarchism in Edith Wharton's The Children / Ferd¿ Asya -- "The very beginning of things": reading Wharton through Charles Eliot Norton's life and writings on Italy / William Blazek -- Cosmopolitan places: from Italy to New York and back -- Wharton's Italian women: "My beloved Romola" / Rita Bode -- Possessing Italy: Wharton and American tourists / Maureen E. Montgomery -- Beyond the guidebook: Edith Wharton's rediscovery of San Vivaldo / D. Medina Lasansky -- Here/there, now/then, both/and: regionalism and cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton's old New York / June Howard -- Cosmopolitan aesthetics -- The cosmopolitan at war: Edith Wharton and transnational material culture / Mary Carney -- "Eyes filled with splendor": on Italy and the saturated gaze in the custom of the country / Sharon Kim -- Orientalism, modernism, and gender in Edith Wharton's late novels / Margaret A. Toth -- Afterword: Edith Wharton and the promise of cosmopolitanism / Gary Totten |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Cosmopolitanism
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Women intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
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Goldsmith, Meredith, editor
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Orlando, Emily J. (Emily Josephine), 1969- editor
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Campbell, Donna M., writer of foreword
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