Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-sell

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or ge

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as prov

Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century.

This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these