Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Book

List of illustrations     ix
Acknowledgements     x
Notes and references     xi
Introduction     xii
Text and contexts     1
The text     3
The author: Edith Wharton (1862-1937)     13
Literary contexts     21
Critical history     57
Early critical responses     59
Contemporary reviews     60
Wharton's correspondence about The House of Mirth     64
The first critics     66
R.W.B. Lewis, Cynthia Griffin Wolff: the pioneers     70
The radicalisation of Wharton criticism     72
Specialist studies     76
New directions: the uncollected works and the library catalogue     79
Critical readings     81
Introduction     83
'Beyond the Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart' by Edith Thornton     84
'Is Lily Gay?' by Katherine Joslin     96
'The House of Mirth: Genred Locations' by Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan     106
'"Seeing a Disfigurement": Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth' by Kathy Fedorko     116
'"Hypertexts" and the City: The House of Mirth at the Millennium' by Pamela Knights     127
Performance/adaptation     143
Introduction     145
Edith Wharton: transplanting Lily     145
'Les Metteurs en Scene' and The Glimpses of the Moon     146
'The Introducers'     147
The House of Mirth on stage     148
The House of Mirth on screen     152
Further reading and web resources     155
Further reading     157
Web resources     160
Index     163