184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social... Read more
Chapter 1 Text and contexts; Chapter 2 Critical history; Chapter 3 Critical readings; Chapter 3a Edith Thornton, ‘Beyondthe Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart’; Chapter 3b Katherine Joslin, ‘Is Lily Gay?’; Chapter 3c Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan, ‘The House of Mirth: Genred Locations’; Chapter 3d Kathy Fedorko, ‘“;Seeing a Disfigurement”: Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth’; Chapter 3e Pamela Knights, ‘“;Hypertexts” and the City: The House of Mirthat the Millennium’; Chapter 4 Performance/adaptation; Chapter 5 Further reading and web resources;
Biography
Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on North American women's writing, especially Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin.
