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The house of mirth / Edith Wharton ; with an afterword by Louis Auchincloss.
LIBRA PS3545.H16 H68 1980
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Series:
- Signet classic
- A Signet classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social status--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Social status.
- Social values--Fiction.
- Social values.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918--Fiction.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised and updated bibliography.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New American Library, [1980]
- Summary:
- (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Introduction by Pamela KnightsIn "The House of Mirth," Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, "The House of Mirth" exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny. "From the Hardcover edition."
- Contents:
- Part 1 The House of Mirth: The Complete Text
- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
- The Complete Text [1905 Scribner's Edition]
- Part 2 The House of Mirth: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
- A Critical History of The House of Mirth
- Cultural Criticism and The House of Mirth
- What Is Cultural Criticism?
- Cultual Criticism: A Selecterd Bibliography
- A Cultural Perspective:
- Lillian S. Robinson, The Traffic in Women: A Cultural Critique of The House of Mirth
- Marxist Criticism and The House of Mirth
- What Is Marxist Criticism?
- Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
- A Marxist Perspective:
- Wai-Chee Dimock, Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
- Feminist Criticism and The House of Mirth
- What Is Feminist Criticism?
- Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
- A Feminist Perspective:
- Frances L. Restuccia, The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(s)
- Deconstruction and The House of Mirth
- What Is Deconstruction?
- Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
- A Deconstructionist Perspective:
- Margot Norris, Death by Speculation: Deconstructing The House of Mirth
- Psychoanalytic Criticism and The House of Mirth
- What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
- Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
- A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
- Ellie Ragland Sullivan, The Daughter's Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-351).
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0451515463
- 9780451515469
- 0451521439
- 9780451521439
- OCLC:
- 8426536
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