Critical Insights: Edith Wharton

This volume will examine a wide range of Wharton’s works, from her major novels The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence to her war writings, Gothic fiction, and late works, such as The Children and The Glimpses of the Moon. It will address the relationship between Wharton and other writers, including Willa Cather, Henry James, and Charlotte Brontë, and will offer fresh perspectives on Wharton’s views on gender, motherhood, law, architecture, and the classical tradition.