The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Howard, Maureen. “The Bachelor and the Baby: The House of Mirth.” In The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton, edited by Millicent Bell, pp. 137-56. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Examines Wharton's mix of social realism and Victorian melodrama in The House of Mirth.

McIlvaine, Robert. “Edith Wharton's American Beauty Rose.” Journal of American Studies 7, no. 2 (August 1973): 183-85.

Discusses flower imagery in The House of Mirth.

Poirier, Richard. “Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth.” In The American Novel from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner, edited by Wallace Stegner, pp. 117-32. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1965.

Poirier presents an overview of The House of Mirth, noting similarities between Wharton and other great female novelists.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. “Lily Bart and the Beautiful...

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