New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'

New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'
ISBN-10
0521378338
ISBN-13
9780521378338
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2001-01-15
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Emory Elliot, Deborah Esch

Description

The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version for most of 1905 and then as a hardback in October of that year. Edith Wharton's story of Lily Bart topped the Am erican bestseller list for four months and sealed the author's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four articles collected in this New Essays volume makes distinctive new claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work.

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