ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|14 pages
When the Reading Had to Stop
Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country
chapter 3|16 pages
‘Don't Cry – It ain't that Kind of a Story’
Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908–12
chapter 6|14 pages
‘It's Better to Watch’
Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth
chapter 11|12 pages
‘Lost in Translation’
Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country
