Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
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Abstract
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores Edith Wharton’s relation to the concept of cosmopolitanism, as it extended toward her politics, her aesthetics, and her vision of cultural differences. Essays explore Wharton’s cosmopolitan ideas and ideals, influences such as American art historian Charles Eliot Norton; her attitudes toward transatlanticism and globalization; and her art-historical discoveries in Europe. This book also calls significant attention to Wharton’s lesser-known works, including her travel writing on Europe, war writing, and other nonfiction, as well as her first novel, The Valley of Decision. It demonstrates how Wharton struggled to balance her ideas about national and local identity with cosmopolitan values throughout her career.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Edith Wharton: A Citizen of the World
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I Cosmopolitan Ideas and Ideals
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II Cosmopolitan Places: From Italy to New York and Back
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Wharton’s Italian Women: “My Beloved Romola”
Rita Bode
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Possessing Italy: Wharton and American Tourists
Maureen E. Montgomery
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Beyond the Guidebook: Edith Wharton’s Rediscovery of San Vivaldo
D. Medina Lasansky
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Here/There, Now/Then, Both/And: Regionalism and Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Old New York
June Howard
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Wharton’s Italian Women: “My Beloved Romola”
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III Cosmopolitan Aesthetics
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The Cosmopolitan at War: Edith Wharton and Transnational Material Culture
Mary Carney
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“Eyes Filled with Splendor”: On Italy and the Saturated Gaze in The Custom of the Country
Sharon Kim
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Orientalism, Modernism, and Gender in Edith Wharton’s Late Novels
Margaret A. Toth
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Afterword Edith Wharton and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism
Gary Totten
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The Cosmopolitan at War: Edith Wharton and Transnational Material Culture
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End Matter
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