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Misreading The House of Mirth

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Amy L. Blair
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 149–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-149
Published: 01 March 2004
... heroines. The Detroit Post recounted the story of one indignant reader who chas- tised Wharton as she was walking in her adopted hometown of Lenox, Massachusetts: I]t was bad enough that you had the heart to kill Lily. But here you are, shamelessly parading the streets in a red hat 1 For this stranger...
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Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing

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Nick Bromell
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-003
Published: 01 June 2009
... of Mirth is more exhilarating and painful than the one in which Lily and Selden take their autumn walk together and nearly become engaged. It is exciting because it shows how marvel- ously successful our knowing of others can be; but it is heartbreaking because it also shows how easily our social...
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Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness

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Monica Huerta
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398663
Published: 01 September 2024
... and figure only as exchange values. Social gestures are not only subject to, but also become exchange values, and these exchange values are those set exclusively by those in power.” In Dimock’s telling, Lily is destined to lose because she adheres to the rules of “payback” when the system in fact operates...
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The Biological Clock: Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood

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Jennifer L. Fleissner
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 519–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-024
Published: 01 September 2006
... and fade. This image is much more prevalent in Whar- ton’smorecelebratedworkoftheperiod,The House of Mirth (1905), with its heroine ‘‘Lily’’ Bart, although even here, a tension emerges between the older figuration and the newer sense of female tempo- rality imposed by the clock. That the more...
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Edith Wharton's Alchemy of Publicity

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Lorna Brittan
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 725–751.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-037
Published: 01 December 2007
....”11 728  American Literature No character of Wharton’s awaits that footstep with more anxiety than Lily Bart in The House of Mirth (1905). Although Lily frequently has “a passionate desire that some one should know the truth about” her, she inevitably resists this revelatory impulse...
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Garden Variety: Botany and Multiplicity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Abolitionism

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Mary Kuhn
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149345
Published: 01 September 2015
... : Burdick Brothers . Jackson-Houlston Caroline . 2006 . “‘Queen Lilies’? The Interpenetration of Scientific, Religious, and Gender Discourses in Victorian Representations of Plants.” Journal of Victorian Culture 11 , no. 1 : 84 – 110 . Jager Colin . 2006 . The Book of God...
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Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism

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Cecilia Tichi
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 828–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329662
Published: 01 December 2015
...) and their livelihood dependent on “trickle-down” benevolence (61). Such “benevolence” proves nonexistent in The House of Mirth, in which the orphaned, impecunious Lily Bart finds that her beauty, flawless manners, and personal loyalty are unavail- ing in a lethally treacherous social world of newly rich...
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Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics Economy: How Cloning Narratives Negotiate the Telos of DNA

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Stephanie S. Turner
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 887–909.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-887
Published: 01 December 2002
... in the Jurassic Park narrative, are two manifestations of these counter- vailing forces that Baudrillard emphasizes. Here is what Lily Kay calls the ‘‘key conundrum’’ of the code-script metaphor.11 On the one hand, the information and linguistic metaphors that have sprung up around the description of DNA...
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Symbolizing the Past: Reading “Sankofa,” “Daughters of the Dust,” and “Eve's Bayou” as Histories

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Christian Campbell
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 883–884.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-883
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul

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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 884–885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-884
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature

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Michael Nowlin
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 885–887.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-885
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture

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Theresa Delgadillo
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 887–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-887
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism

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Patricia Penn Hilden
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 888–889.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-888
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

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Keith Byerman
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 889–890.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-889
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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A Genealogy of Queer Theory

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Eden Osucha
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 890–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-890
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society

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James Dawes
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 892.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-892
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century

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Kathe Davis
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 893–894.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-893
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862

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Kurt Eisen
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 865–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-865
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre; Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

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Mary Loeffelholz
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-866
Published: 01 December 2001
... reading of the female author in The Touchstone, the concepts of authorial debasement and paradoxi- cal redemption receive a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation...
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Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism

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Lynn Wardley
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 869–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-869
Published: 01 December 2001
... a more complex treatment in the position of Lily Bart Book Reviews 873 in The House of Mirth: Lily’s subjugation to the marriage-commodity market leads to her textualization in a ‘‘scene of publication’’ (the tableau vivant)that exemplifies...
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