Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism

1. Introduction
Jennifer Haytock

2. Troubling the Subjective: The Problem of Impressionism in The Reef

Jennifer Haytock

3. “Any Change May Mean Something”: Summer, Sexuality, and Single Women
Jennifer Haytock

4. “Unmediated Bonding Between Men”: The Accumulation of Men in the Short Stories
Jennifer Haytock

5. “A Sign of Pain’s Triumph”: War, Art, and Civilization
Jennifer Haytock

6. “The Readjustment of Personal Relations”: Marriage, Modernism, and the Alienated Self
Jennifer Haytock

7. Antimodernism and Looking Pretty: Wharton’s Artistic Practice
Jennifer Haytock

8. Afterword
Jennifer Haytock

Nyckelord: Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature