Edith Wharton and the politics of race

Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters

"The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth

"A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree

The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef

Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist

Coda : The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy.