Edith Wharton's The house of mirth
Subtitle: a casebook
By: edited by Carol J. Singley.
Contributors: Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Series: Casebooks in criticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Social classes in literature; Single women in literature
Description: 'The House of Mirth' is perhaps Edith Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337).
Table of contents: title: A backward glance / Edith Wharton; title: Introduction to the 1936 edition of The house of mirth / Edith Wharton; title: The death of the lady (novelist): Wharton's House of mirth / Elaine Showalter; title: Debasing exchange: Edith Wharton's The house of mirth / Wai Chee Dimock; title: Crowded spaces in The house of mirth / Amy Kaplan; title: The house of mirth: a novel of admonition / Linda Wagner-Martin; title: "The word which made all clear": the silent close of The house of mirth / Shari Benstock; title: The "perfect Jew" and The house of mirth: a study in point of view / Irene C. Goldman-Price; title: Another sleeping beauty: narcissism in The house of mirth / Joan Lidoff; title: Lily Bart and the drama of femininity / Cynthia Griffin Wolff; title: Engendering naturalism: narrative form and commodity spectacle in U.S. naturalist fiction / Lori Merish; title: The crumbling structure of "appearances": representation and authenticity in The house of mirth and The custom of the country / Christopher Gair; title: Extinction, taxidermy, tableaux vivants: staging race and class in The house of mirth / Jennie A. Kassanoff.