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In Rattray's hands, Edith Wharton is re-presented as a writer mastering a widerange of genres beyond the celebrated fiction. Wharton's achievements inpoetry, drama, architecture and design, criticism, memoir, and travel writingemerge as sites for her most confident, radical experiments. This game-changingbook will lay to rest the image of the grand dame, showing Wharton to defycategorization and to be as "large" and full of "multitudes" as the...

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton's full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsideredin this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travelwriter, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely ...

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.

This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural and historical contexts surrounding Edith Wharton's popular and prolific literary career.

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.