Edith Wharton's The house of mirth : a casebook /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Casebooks in criticism.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A backward glance / Edith Wharton
  • Introduction to the 1936 edition of The house of mirth / Edith Wharton
  • The death of the lady (novelist): Wharton's House of mirth / Elaine Showalter
  • Debasing exchange: Edith Wharton's The house of mirth / Wai Chee Dimock
  • Crowded spaces in The house of mirth / Amy Kaplan
  • The house of mirth: a novel of admonition / Linda Wagner-Martin
  • "The word which made all clear": the silent close of The house of mirth / Shari Benstock
  • The "perfect Jew" and The house of mirth: a study in point of view / Irene C. Goldman-Price
  • Another sleeping beauty: narcissism in The house of mirth / Joan Lidoff
  • Lily Bart and the drama of femininity / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
  • Engendering naturalism: narrative form and commodity spectacle in U.S. naturalist fiction / Lori Merish
  • The crumbling structure of "appearances": representation and authenticity in The house of mirth and The custom of the country / Christopher Gair
  • Extinction, taxidermy, tableaux vivants: staging race and class in The house of mirth / Jennie A. Kassanoff.