Edith Wharton in context Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Wharton and James
1	The "Fictioning" of Henry James in Wharton's "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" and "Ogrin the Hermit"	9
2	The Give-and-Take between Edith Wharton and Henry James: "The Velvet Glove" and Edith Wharton	20
3	The Metamorphoses of Edith Wharton in Henry James's Finer Grain Stories	33
4	Jamesian Structures in The Age of Innocence and Related Stories	58
5	"Bad" Mothers and Daughters in the Fiction of Wharton and James	75
6	Wharton and James: Some Additional Literary Give-and-Take	79
7	Henry James's "Julia Bride": A Source for Chapter 9 in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country	85
Pt. 2	Wharton and Others
8	Edith Wharton and Paul Bourget: Literary Exchanges	93
9	The Portrait of Edith in Bourget's "L'Indicatrice"	99
10	Madame de Treymes Corrects Bourget's Un Divorce	104
11	Two Novels of the "Relatively Poor": George Gissing's New Grub Street and The House of Mirth	111
12	Edith Wharton and F. Marton Crawford	116
13	Edith Wharton and Grace Aguilar: Mothers, Daughters, and Incest in the Late Novels of Edith Wharton	124
14	Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemmgway, and Vivienne de Watteville, Speak to the Earth	134
15	Hugh Walpole's All Souls' Night and Edith Wharton's "All Souls'"	139
16	Consuelo Vanderbilt, John Esquemeling, and The Buccaneers	143
Pt. 3	Wharton's Uses of Art
17	False Dawn and the Irony of Taste Changes in Art	155
18	Correggio and Rossetti in The Buccaneers: Tradition and Revolution in the Patterns of Love	162
19	Tiepolo's Ceiling in the Church of the Scalzi and The Glimpses of the Moon: The Importance of Home	170
Pt. 4	Literary Lives of Wharton
20	A Poet's Version of Edith Wharton: Richard Howard's The Lesson of the Master	185
21	Louis Auchincloss Deconstructs the Biography of Edith Wharton: From Invented Ediths to Her Real Self: Justice to Teddy Wharton in "The Arbiter"	192
22	The Punishment of Morton Fullerton in "The 'Fulfillment' of Grace Eliot"	199
23	Morton Fullerton's View of the Affair in "They That Have Power to Hurt"	210
24	The "Real" Mrs. Wharton in The Education of Oscar Fairfax	218
25	Edith Wharton as Herself in Carol DeChellis Hill's Henry James's Midnight Song	222
26	Cathleen Schine's The Love Letter	225
Pt. 5	The Legacy of Wharton's Fiction: Three Rewritings
27	Louis Auchincloss Reinvents Edith Wharton's "After Holbein"	229
28	Daniel Magida's The Rules of Seduction and The Age of Innocence	233
29	Lev Raphael's The Edith Wharton Murders	238
App	A Book and Four Friends: Henry James, Walter Berry, Edith Wharton, and W. Morton Fullerton	241
	Index	251