“To write a history of Miami is to enter a treacherous swamp … The goals that Anthony Maingot announces for Miami: A Cultural History are actually bolder than they might appear: ‘To avoid flippant critiques, odious comparisons, and exuberant boosterism’ (p. xxi).”

Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome as a response to regionalism.

Analyzes Jack London’s The Star Rover and Mary Austin’s The Man Jesus in light of their correspondence.

Analyzes Stephen Crane’s The Third Violet in the context of his sister Agnes Crane’s vacation story “A Victorious Retreat.”

This article provides a biographical sketch of Gertrude Christian Fosdick and analyzes her little-known novel of a female artist, Out of Bohemia (1894), in the context of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun.

Analyzes Hamlin Garland’s three autobiographical accounts of his 1924 meeting with Edith Wharton as an index of her reputation as novelist and expatriate.

Discusses Edith Wharton’s “The Looking Glass” and “The Day of the Funeral” in relation to macabre humor and Anderson’s theory of the grotesque.

Edith Wharton’s early fiction as a critique of regionalism.