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Bearing Witness: Edith Wharton’s The Book of the Homeless
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 46, Number 2, June 2013
- pp. 87-103
- 10.1353/mos.2013.0011
- Article
- Additional Information
During World War I, Edith Wharton edited The Book of the Homeless, a propagandist effort for the Allies. Designed to raise money and spur American intervention, it influenced the course of her fiction throughout the 1920s.