The house of mirth : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Author(s)

• Wharton, Edith
• Ammons, Elizabeth

Bibliographic Information

The house of mirth : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Edith Wharton ; edited by Elizabeth Ammons

（Norton critical editions）

Norton, c1990

1st ed

Note

Bibliography: p. 374

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of "The Dying Gladiator." Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA1402809X
• ISBN:
  • 9780393959017
• LCCN: 89033794
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 374 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3545.H16
  • DC20 : 813/.52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. House of mirth
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00246310