Edith Wharton and the paradox of fin-de-siècle modernity / Charlee Sterling -- Wharton studies / Dale M. Bauer -- Edith Wharton and the rise of the new woman / Isabelle Groenhof -- "The one end to which her whole organism tended": Social evolution in Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Hannah Huber -- Edith Wharton's "New Visions": An exploration of the influence of Catharine Maria Sedgwick on Bunner Sisters and The Old Maid / Deborah Gussman -- "Like patterns stenciled on a wall": Edith Wharton's decoration of fictional houses / Elif S. Armbruster -- A new material approach to reading objects in Edith Wharton's novels of manners / Margaret Jay Jessee -- Of money, love, and art: Edith Wharton's cultural study of war / Elizabeth Hetzel and Carla Chwat -- Edith Wharton and law / Alicia Mischa Renfroe -- Edith Wharton's Old New York: Nineteenth-century American literary history and the art of selection in The Age of Innocence / Mollie Barnes -- How to write a best-selling novel: The House of Mirth in the classical tradition / Mauro Lo Dico -- Edith Wharton's "Roman fever," or the revenge of Daisy Miller / Robert Klevay -- Hotel kids incorporated: Childhood counterculture in Edith Wharton's late fiction / Jericho Williams -- Unwilling victims: Naturalism and the living dead in Summer and Weeds / Stephanie Metz.