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The House of Mirth
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Ammons, Elizabeth (Editor)
ISBN: 0393624544     ISBN-13: 9780393624540
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $23.99  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.52
LCCN: 2017053347
Lexile Measure: 1230
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 424 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

This Norton Critical Edition includes:


- The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations.
- A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons.
- An abundant selection of contextual material, including excerpts from Wharton's letters, contemporary reviews, six drawings by Charles Dana Gibson, Thorstein Veblen on conspicuous consumption, Charlotte Perkins Gilman on women and economics, and various others writing about women's place in society at the turn of the century.
- Six modern critical views, considering issues of economics, race, materialism, body image, nature, and feminism within the novel.
- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and designer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The Decoration of Houses, and many other books.Ammons, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton's Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.