Cover: The House of Mirth, 1st Edition by Edith Wharton; Edited by Shari Benstock

The House of Mirth

First  Edition©1994  Edith Wharton; Edited by Shari Benstock

ISBN:9780312062347

About

As part of Bedford/St. Martins inventive Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, this edition of The House of Mirth is accompanied by carefully seclected critical essays which approach the book from several contemporary critical perspectives.

Table of Contents

  About the Series
  About This Volume
    
PART ONE: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: THE COMPLETE TEXT
    
  Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
    
  The Complete Text [1905 Scribners Edition]
    
PART TWO: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    
  A Critical History of The House of Mirth
    
  Cultural Criticism and The House of Mirth
    What Is Cultural Criticism?
    Cultual Criticism: A Selecterd Bibliography
    A Cultural Perspective:
       Lillian S. Robinson, The Traffic in Women: A Cultural Critique of The House of Mirth
    
  Marxist Criticism and The House of Mirth
    What Is Marxist Criticism?
    Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Marxist Perspective:
       Wai-Chee Dimock, Debasing Exchange: Edith Whartons The House of Mirth
    
  Feminist Criticism and The House of Mirth
    What Is Feminist Criticism?
    Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Feminist Perspective:
       Frances L. Restuccia, The Name of the Lily: Edith Whartons Feminism(s)
    
  Deconstruction and The House of Mirth
    What Is Deconstruction?
    Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
    A Deconstructionist Perspective:
       Margot Norris, Death by Speculation: Deconstructing The House of Mirth
    
  Psychoanalytic Criticism and The House of Mirth
    What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
    Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
       Ellie Ragland Sullivan, The Daughters Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Whartons The House of Mirth
    
  Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
    
  About the Contributors

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was one of Americas greatest writers. The author of more than forty books, including The Age of Innocence, Wharton was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was the principal designer of her 1902 country home The Mount in Lenox, Mass. The Mounts elegant house and gardens reflect the neoclassical design principles that she espoused in her works The Decoration of Houses and Italian Villas and Their Gardens.

Shari Benstock