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The House of Mirth: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of The House of Mirth: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism by Edith Wharton

Authors: Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons
ISBN-13: 9780393959017, ISBN-10: 0393959015
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: January 1990
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Edith Wharton

One of America's most important novelists, Edith Wharton was a refined, relentless chronicler of the Gilded Age and its social mores. Along with close friend Henry James, she helped define literature at the turn of the 20th century, even as she wrote classic nonfiction on travel, decorating and her own life.

Book Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.

	About the Series
	About This Volume
Pt. 1	The House of Mirth: The Complete Text
	Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts	3
	The Complete Text	25
Pt. 2	The House of Mirth: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
	A Critical History of The House of Mirth	309
	Cultural Criticism and The House of Mirth	326
	What Is Cultural Criticism?	326
	Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	337
	A Cultural Perspective: The Traffic in Women: A Cultural Critique of The House of Mirth	340
	Marxist Criticism and The House of Mirth	359
	What Is Marxist Criticism?	359
	Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	372
	A Marxist Perspective: Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth	375
	Feminist Criticism and The House of Mirth	391
	What Is Feminist Criticism?	391
	Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	398
	A Feminist Perspective: The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(s)	404
	Deconstruction and The House of Mirth	419
	What Is Deconstruction?	419
	Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography	429
	A Deconstructionist Perspective: Death by Speculation: Deconstructing The House of Mirth	431
	Psychoanalytic Criticism and The House of Mirth	447
	What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?	447
	Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	459
	A Psychoanalytic Perspective: The Daughter's Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth	464
	Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms	483
	About the Contributors	497