Gary Totten (English) presented the keynote address, "," at an online event celebrating U.S. writer Edith Wharton's 162nd birthday, hosted by the Transatlantic Literary Women project at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Edith Wharton Society. In his talk, Totten tracked how Wharton's interest in the connections between the natural world, architecture, and the human developed over the course of her travel writing, and how these connections also informed her fiction.
