1st Edition
Edith Wharton New Critical Essays
Introduction Alfred Bendixen; Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton’s House of Mirth Elaine Showalter; Reading Mrs Lloyd Judith Fryer; To Form a More Imperfect Union: Gender, Tradition, and the Text in Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree Deborah Carlin; Wharton’s Reef: The Inscription of Female Sexuality Rebecca Blevins Faery; Cold Ethan and Hot Ethan Cynthia Griffin Wolff; Charity at the Window: Narrative Technique in Edith Wharton’s Summer Jean Frantz Blackall; American Naturalism in Its "Perfected" State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy Donald Pizer; Clocks and Mirrors, Dreams and Destinies: Edith Wharton’s The Old Maid Judith E Funston; Edith Wharton Reads the Bachelor Type: Her Critique of Merdenism’s Representative Man Judith L. Sensibar; Edith Wharton’s Subtle Revenge?: Morton Fullerton and the Female Artist in the Husdon River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive Abby H. P. Werlock; New Literary History: Edith Wharton and Jessie Redmont Fauset Elizabeth Ammons; Edith Wharton’s Poetry E. K. Brown; Lost Lands: Metaphors of Sexual Awakening in Edith Wharton’s Poetry, 1908-1909 Catherine Bancroft; Gender and First-Person Narration in Edith Wharton’s Short Fiction Elsa Nettels; "The Muse’s Tragedy" and the Muse’s Text: Language and Desire in Wharton M. Denise Witzig; Gothic Borrowings and Innovations in Edith Wharton’s "A Bottle of Perrier" Carol J. Singley; Edith Wharton’s Ghost Tales Reconsidered Margaret B. McDowell; "All Soul’s": Wharton’s Last Haunted House and Future Directions in Criticism Annette Zilversmit
Biography
Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit
