House of Mirth - A Routledge Study Guide

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905) is a satirical, and also an analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this volume is a guide to the novel, and also a way through the critical material that surrounds Wharton's text. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Janet Beer, Janet (University of Oxford Beer, Janet Knights Beer, Beer Janet, Pamela Knights, Knights Pamela, Elizabeth Nolan, Nolan Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2007
• EAN: 9780415350099
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35009-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form