on Writing Against Reform
on Writing Against Reform
October 2024
Arielle Zibrak is Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming and the author of Avidly Reads: Guilty Pleasures (New York University Press, 2021) and Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). She is also the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Twelve Stories by American Women (Penguin Classics, 2025). She is currently at work on a historical memoir about postcolonial haunting and a literary history of the power of the positive thinking movement, New Thought. Find more of her work at www.ariellezibrak.com.