The House of Mirth is perhaps Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel, and scholars and teachers consider it an essential introduction to Wharton and her work. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped move women's literature into a new place of achievement and prominence. Kassanoff.Įdith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. Extinction, taxidermy, tableaux vivants : staging race and class in The house of mirth / Jennie A.The crumbling structure of appearances : representation and authenticity in The house of mirth and The custom of the country / Christopher Gair.Engendering naturalism : narrative form and commodity spectacle in U.S.Lily Bart and the drama of femininity / Cynthia Griffin Wolff.Another sleeping beauty : narcissism in The house of mirth / Joan Lidoff.

The perfect Jew and The house of mirth : a study in point of view / Irene C.The word which made all clear : the silent close of The house of mirth / Shari Benstock.The house of mirth : a novel of admonition / Linda Wagner-Martin.

Crowded spaces in The house of mirth / Amy Kaplan.Debasing exchange : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth / Wai Chee Dimock.The death of the lady (novelist) : Wharton's House of mirth / Elaine Showalter.Introduction to the 1936 edition of The house of mirth / Edith Wharton.

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