Not a monograph but recent and possibly of interest: nasjournal.org/NASJ/issue/v...

Tomorrow 5pm UK time: what makes an American "classic"?

What a warmly generous review of American Snobs: I'm grateful for Margarida Cadima's careful reading. muse.jhu.edu/article/953765

@manshel.bsky.social, I really enjoyed your interview in the issue - I'm a big fan of your book and _very_ eagerly following your high school project!

Thrilled to be a part of this timely new NASJ issue, and grateful to the editors for asking: "What Makes an American Classic?" nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...

(image credit: The Mount www.edithwharton.org/writing-the-...)

Cover of the Pictorial Review, July 1920, featuring The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton scholars, come talk about Wharton & democracy & popular culture at ALA in Boston this May! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

Having barely survived commuting Oxford-Bristol for 5 years, I salute you! And you are so right re those winter evenings of First Great Western chaos: the worst.

Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

Reading and Attention in Wharton’s Modernity and Our Own Abstract. How might Edith Wharton’s thoughts about readers and reading speak to anxieties about the fate of reading in our own moment? This short article places Wharton in conversation with the contem...

Why is the ghost story is such a good site for thinking about technology and declines in reading? Edith Wharton knew! Grateful to the editors of the EWR for the opportunity to develop these thoughts.

What a nice surprise to find a review of my no-longer-new book in the latest HJR. I'm grateful to Ágnes Zsófia Kovács for her careful reading and generous praise. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

special issue cover

So happy that this is out now: "American Literary Institutions Around 1900", a special issue of College Literature I co-edited w/ @seeshespeak.bsky.social and Florian Sedlmeier. Feat. @emilycoit.bsky.social, @matthewchambers.bsky.social and many colleagues not on here (yet)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477

So many interesting cross-currents, can't wait to read through the whole thing. Thank you for all your work!

Honored to be a part of this special issue on "American Literary Institutions Around 1900." Thanks to @seeshespeak.bsky.social, @astarre.bsky.social, and Florian Sedlmeier for making it happen. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477

Ozick’s Feminism and the Woman Writer Abstract. As Ozick herself has noted, readers have observed a contradiction between her championing of the particularity of the Jewish writer and her insistence on the human universality of the writer...

Out today, my article about Ozick's scary stories about Wharton and Woolf

Those lectures made me believe I hated modernism. :(

NEWS YOU CAN USE “despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths”. www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...

attn George Eliot scholars:

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"...we can, at the very least, stop _actively preventing_ young people from developing the ability to follow extended narratives and arguments in the classroom"