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Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth : A Casebook.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Casebooks in Criticism SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (346 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199972418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Edith Wharton's the House of MirthDDC classification:
  • 813/.52
LOC classification:
  • PS3545.H16 .E358 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Backward Glance -- Introduction to the 1936 Edition of The House of Mirth -- The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth -- Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth -- Crowded Spaces in The House of Mirth -- The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition -- "The Word Which Made All Clear": The Silent Close of The House of Mirth -- The "Perfect Jew" and The House of Mirth: A Study in Point of View -- Another Sleeping Beauty: Narcissism in The House of Mirth -- Lily Bart and the Drama of Femininity -- Engendering Naturalism: Narrative Form and Commodity Spectacle in U.S. Naturalist Fiction -- The Crumbling Structure of "Appearances": Representation and Authenticity in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country -- Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth -- Selected Bibliography.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Backward Glance -- Introduction to the 1936 Edition of The House of Mirth -- The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth -- Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth -- Crowded Spaces in The House of Mirth -- The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition -- "The Word Which Made All Clear": The Silent Close of The House of Mirth -- The "Perfect Jew" and The House of Mirth: A Study in Point of View -- Another Sleeping Beauty: Narcissism in The House of Mirth -- Lily Bart and the Drama of Femininity -- Engendering Naturalism: Narrative Form and Commodity Spectacle in U.S. Naturalist Fiction -- The Crumbling Structure of "Appearances": Representation and Authenticity in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country -- Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth -- Selected Bibliography.

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