New essays on The House of Mirth

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Label

New essays on The House of Mirth

Statement of responsibility

edited by Deborah Esch

Title variation

House of Mirth

Contributor

• Esch, Deborah, 1954-

Subject

• Single women in literature
• Social classes in literature
• Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

Language

eng

Summary

"Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the American reading public when it was published in a serial version in Scribner's in 1905 and then as a hardback in October of that year. Wharton's story of Lily Bart, a "social parasite," according to Edmund Wilson, "on the fringes of the very rich," topped one best-seller list for four months. The novel sealed the author's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four essays collected in this volume of The American Novel series makes distinctive new claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• American novel

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3545.H16

LC item number

H6836 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The American novel