The House of Mirth, 2nd Edition: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

by Edith Wharton (Author), Elizabeth Ammons (Author)

New
Illustrated
2018
$17.80

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.

Synopsis

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.

$17.80

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3 in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 424
Edition: Second
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 31 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 0393624544
ISBN 13: 9780393624540

Author Bio

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. 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.