Edith Wharton's The house of mirth : a casebook / edited by Carol J. Singley.

Contributor Singley, Carol J., 1951-

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Descriptionviii, 337 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337).

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