Janet Beer, Pamela Knights, Elizabeth Nolan

House Of Mirth (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134269549
• Artikelnr.: 42641392

Autorenporträt

Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on North American women's writing, especially Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Text and contexts
Chapter 2 Critical history
Chapter 3 Critical readings
Chapter 3a Edith Thornton, 'Beyondthe Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart'
Chapter 3b Katherine Joslin, 'Is Lily Gay?'
Chapter 3c Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan, 'The House of Mirth: Genred Locations'
Chapter 3d Kathy Fedorko, '"
Seeing a Disfigurement": Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth'
Chapter 3e Pamela Knights, '"
Hypertexts" and the City: The House of Mirthat the Millennium'
Chapter 4 Performance/adaptation
Chapter 5 Further reading and web resources