The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton’s historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton’s lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and co-editor, with Meredith Goldsmith, of Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism. A Past President of the Edith Wharton Society, she curated the Wharton installation for the American Writers Museum and is preparing an annotated edition of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses.