Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the early 20th century wile also being an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the...
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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the early 20th century wile also being an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume provides not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton's text
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes and references; Introduction; 1: Text and contexts; The text; The author: Edith Wharton (1862-1937); Literary contexts; 2: Critical history; Early critical responses; Contemporary reviews; Wharton's correspondence about The House of Mirth; Thefirst critics; R.W B.Lewis,Cynthia Griffin Wolff: the pioneers; The radicalisation of Wharton criticism; Specialist studies; New directions: the uncollected works and the library catalogue; 3: Critical readings; Introduction
'Beyond the Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart''Is Lily Gay?'; 'The House of Mirth: Genred Locations'; ' ""Seeing a Disfigurement"": Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth'; ' ""Hypertexts"" and the City: The House of Mirth at the Millennium'; 4: Performance/adaptation; Introduction; Edith Wharton: transplanting Lily; 'Les Metteurs en Scène' and The Glimpses of the Moon; 'The Introducers'; The House of Mirth on stage; The House of Mirth on screen; 5: Further reading and web resources; Further reading; Web resources; Index
