{"title":"Introduction: Edith Wharton's Ecological Consciousness","authors":"Melanie V. Dawson, Jennifer Haytock","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0089","url":null,"abstract":"In 1920 Wharton would write from her Hyères garden, “I have always been more deeply sylvan, & horti & agri & all the rest of it, than anything else, & now the flowers & birds & woods literally ‘fill the room up’ of oh, so many absent friends” (Lee 557). The comforts of Wharton’s garden, her knowledge of it, and her long-term habit of cultivating the natural world all emerge in this statement, which also anthropomorphizes aspects of nature as human companions. As this introduction to this special issue of The Edith Wharton Review suggests, Wharton’s enthusiasm for natural environments led her to champion gardens and natural vistas; this interest, moreover, gestures toward significant facets of ecological thinking. We see signs of Wharton’s “sylvan” and “horti” and “agri” self emerge across her oeuvre, and those characteristics form the basis for the articles collected here, in which an increasing clarity of ecological thought emerges around natural issues, often in unexpected ways. We can find an example of Wharton’s attention to natural systems in her poem “In the Forest,” in which she focuses on two plant species that scientists today recognize as playing vital roles in the ecology of the North American continent: the violet and the oak. In Wharton’s poem, these plants engage in a dialogue about each’s perception of the world as the oak asks:","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"64 1","pages":"100 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85332005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times","authors":"Nezka Pfeifer","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"57 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72463024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desert Nostalgia in Edith Wharton's Wartime Writing","authors":"S. Holden","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0144","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article addresses how and why Edith Wharton used desert imagery in In Morocco (1920). It assesses this North African travelogue as well as her unpublished manuscript \"Peter Elsom,\" war reportage, and \"The Seed of the Faith,\" a short story set in a fictional Moroccan city. These works reveal that Wharton rarely if ever wrote of the desert as a natural ecological system. For her, the desert conveyed nostalgic longing for a mythic time before the ills of the modern era.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"49 ","pages":"144 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72430936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wharton, Writing, and Nature","authors":"Julie Olin-Ammentorp","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although past critics of Wharton's work have focused on the social world she depicts, Wharton also presents the natural world in her work, from poems she wrote as a teenager through her late writings. Using Thomas Lyon's \"Taxonomy of Nature Writing\" (1989), this article looks at a range of Wharton's work to argue that she is indeed a \"nature writer.\" Wharton's work in Italian Villas and Their Gardens and A Motor-Flight Through France meditate on the relationship between landscape and human habitation, and her lifelong experiences of gardening in various climates deepened her ecological understanding of climatological differences. Wharton's first published story \"Mrs. Manstey's View\" argues for the importance of nature even in an urban setting, while also creating a character who is a phenologist (someone who studies seasonal cycles); much later in her career, her paired novels Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive not only demonstrate Wharton's own skill as a nature writer, but also convey the importance of nature, both cosmic and local, as inspiration to the writer. Finally, the article suggests that Wharton's attentiveness to nature may have made her a better writer; moreover, it asks readers to consider Wharton's depictions of nature as they consider today's ecological crisis.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"256 1","pages":"101 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79074569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edith Wharton's Island Ecologies and The Cruise of the Vanadis","authors":"Gary Totten","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0122","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines what readers learn about Wharton's view of island ecosystems in her 1888 diary of her Aegean cruise, The Cruise of the Vanadis, when readers approach the diary in relation to recent island studies frameworks. The author expands previous discussion of Wharton's imperialist, nationalist, and racial ideologies to consider how these ideas are impacted by her notion of the relationship between humans and their environments, especially in island contexts. Wharton's 1888 cruise is a formative moment in which her notions of island geography and related ideas about otherness—racial, cultural, and geopolitical—emerge. This burgeoning attention to the connections between people and place, what might even be called the bioregional identity of place, carries into the rich connections between characters and settings/landscapes in her later work.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"122 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87481253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature","authors":"Margarida Cadima","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73486930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wharton's Living City in \"Bunner Sisters\"","authors":"R. Bode","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.2.0167","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Edith Wharton's early novella, \"Bunner Sisters,\" shows the author's engagement with ecological thinking from early in her career. Despite her sometimes negative comments on cities, Wharton's fiction reveals the appeal that the urbanscape held for her imagination. An ecocritical approach, informed by urban ecology, traces in \"Bunner Sisters\" Wharton's understanding of the city as a dynamic entity made up of multiple interdependencies that include both animate (human and nonhuman) and inanimate matter. Wharton's ecological awareness illuminates the sisters' relationship to their surroundings through their forays into green spaces and engagement with flowers. In Evelina's case, especially, it illuminates the seductive and detrimental effect of social ideals concerning the marital status of women. More broadly, the sisters' urban context looks forward to best practices in urban planning. With remarkable prescience, Wharton's New York in \"Bunner Sisters\" functions along urban principles aimed at maintaining vibrant cities that align with those espoused by late twentieth-century urban activist Jane Jacobs and subsequently adopted by urban planners and designers.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"167 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77034353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gilded Age: Gosford Park Meets Edith Wharton’s Old New York","authors":"P. Boswell","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.1.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.1.0050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For those of us who study and love the works of Edith Wharton, The Gilded Age gives us the pleasure of recognizing her influence in Julian Fellowes’s epic series. From the detailed and exquisite sets and costumes to the story lines, Wharton— and other writers of her time—help guide us through Fellowes’s 1882 New York City in ways that enrich both the series and Wharton’s works, from The House of Mirth, to The Age of Innocence, to The Old Maid, and beyond.","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"50 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80331618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction ed. by Ferdâ Asya (review)","authors":"A. Blair","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-52742-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52742-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"62 1","pages":"75 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85181746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Early History of the Edith Wharton Society: The First Eighteen Years","authors":"Carole M. Shaffer-Koros","doi":"10.5325/editwharrevi.38.1.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/editwharrevi.38.1.0060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This article recounts the history of the first eighteen years of the Edith Wharton Society.</p>","PeriodicalId":40904,"journal":{"name":"Edith Wharton Review","volume":"164 1","pages":"60 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86743259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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