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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Selected Bibliography

Abbott, Reginald. "'A Moment's Ornament': Wharton's Lily Bart and Art Nouveau." Mosaic 24.2 (1991): 73-91.

Ammons, Elizabeth. Edith Wharton's Argument with America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Auchincloss, Louis. Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists. New York: Dell, 1965.
Barnett, Louise K. "Language, Gender, and Society in The House of Mirth." Connecticut Review 11.2 (1989): 54-63.

Bauer, Dale M. Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community. Albany: State Univ. of New York P, 1988.

Bauer, Dale M. Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Beaty, Robin. "Lilies That Fester: Sentimentality in The House of Mirth." College Literature 14.3 (1987): 263-275.

Beer, Janet. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman : studies in short fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Bell, Millicent. Edith Wharton and Henry James, the Story of their Friendship. New York: G. Braziller, 1965.

Bell, Millicent. The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Bell, Millicent. "Lady Into Author: Edith Wharton and the House of Scribner." American Quarterly 9 (1957): 295-315.

Bendixen, Alfred, and Annette Zilversmit. Edith Wharton : New Critical Essays. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 914. New York: Garland, 1992.

Benert, Annette Larson. "The Geography of Gender in The House of Mirth." Studies in the Novel 22.1 (1990): 26-42.

Benstock, Shari. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biog. & Hist. Contexts, Crit. Hist., & Essays from Five Contemp. Crit. Perspectives. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Benstock, Shari. "The Word Which Made All Clear': The Silent Close of The House of Mirth." Famous Last Words: Women Against Novelistic Endings. Ed. Alison Booth.

Benstock, Shari. No Gifts from Chance : A Biography of Edith Wharton. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Bentley, Nancy. The Ethnography of Manners : Hawthorne, James, Wharton. Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 90. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Blackall, Jean Frantz. "The Intrusive Voice: Telegrams in The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.2 (1991): 163-68.

Bloom, Harold. Edith Wharton. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

Bloom, Harold. American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960. Women Writers of English and their Works. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.

Boydston, Jeanne. "'Grave endearing traditions': Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel." Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Eds. Alice Kessler-Harris and William McBrien. Contribs. in Women's Studies. Series No: 86. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 31-40.

Bristol, Marie. "Life Among the Ungentle Genteel: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Revisited." Western Humanities Review 16.4 (1962): 371-374.

Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

Brown, Jane K. "Goethe and American Literature: The Case of Edith Wharton." Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Ed. Nicholas --Guthrie Boyle, John. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Woodbridge, England: Camden House, 2002. 173-84.

Cahir, Linda Costanzo. "The House of Mirth: An Interview with Director Terence Davies and Producer Olivia Stewart." Literature/Film Quarterly 29.3 (2001): 166-71.

Cain, William E. "Wharton's Art of Presence: The Case of Gerty Farish in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Newsletter 6.2 (1989): 1-2, 7-8.

Chapman, Mary. "'Living Pictures': Women and Tableaux Vivants in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Culture." Wide Angle 18.3 (1996): 22-52.

Clubbe, John. "Interiors and the Interior Life in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Studies in the Novel 28.4 (1996): 543-64.

Colquitt, Clare. "Succumbing to the 'Literary Style': Arrested Desire in The House of Mirth." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20.2 (1991): 153-62.

Connell, Eileen. "Edith Wharton Joins the Working Classes: The House of Mirth and the New York City Working Girls' Clubs." Women's Studies 26.6 (1997): 557+.

Coulombe, Joseph. "Man or Mannequin? Lawrence Selden in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 13.2 (1996): 3-8.

Craig, Theresa, and Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton: a house full of rooms, architecture, interiors, and gardens. New York, N.Y.: The Monacelli Press, 1996.

Cuddy, Lois A. "Triangles of Defeat and Liberation: The Quest for Power in Edith Wharton's Fiction." Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 8 (1982): 18-26.

Davidson, Cathy N. "Kept Women in The House of Mirth." Markham Review 9 (1979): 10-13.

Dawson, Melanie. "Lily Bart's Fractured Alliances and Wharton's Appeal to the Middlebrow Reader." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 41 (1999): 1-30.

De Abruna, Laura Niesen. "Wharton's House of Mirth." Explicator 44.3 (1986): 39-40.

Dessner, Lawrence Jay. "Edith Wharton and the Problem of Form." Ball State University Forum 24.3 (1983): 54-63.

Di Giuseppe, Rita. "Dialectic of Transvaluation in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Sel. Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Florida State Univ. Conf. on Lit. and Film." Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension. Ed. John D. Simons. Florida State Univ. Conference on Literature and Film. Series No: 15. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. 11-24.

Dimock, Wai Chee. "Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biog. & Hist. Contexts, Crit. Hist., & Essays from Five Contemp. Crit. Perspectives." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 375-90.

Dittmar, Linda. "When Privilege Is No Protection: The Woman Artist in Quicksand and The House of Mirth."  Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. Ed. Suzanne Jones. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 133-54.

Dixon, Roslyn. "Reflecting Vision in The House of Mirth." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 33.2 (1987): 211-222.

Donovan, Josephine. After the Fall : the Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.

DuBow, Wendy M. "The Businesswoman in Edith Wharton." Edith Wharton Review 8.2 (1991): 11-18.

Dwight, Eleanor. Edith Wharton : An Extraordinary Life. New York: Abrams, 1994.

Dyman, Jenni. Lurking Feminism : The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton. American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature vol. 62. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Erlich, Gloria C. The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Deborah Esch, ed. New Essays on The House of Mirth. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Fedorko, Kathy A. "Edith Wharton's Haunted Fiction: 'The Lady's Maid's Bell' and The House of Mirth." Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women. Eds. Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991. 80-107.

Fedorko, Kathy A. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.

Fetterley, Judith. "'Temptation to be a beautiful object': Double Standard and Double Bind in The House of Mirth." Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 199-211.

Foster, Shirley. "The Open Cage: Freedom, Marriage and the Heroine in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Novels." Women's Writing: A Challenge to Theory. Ed. Moira Monteith. Sussex; New York: Harvester; St. Martin's, 1986. 154-174.

Friman, Anne. "Determinism and Point of View in The House of Mirth." Papers on Literature and Language (1966).
Fryer, Judith. Felicitous Space : The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Fryer, Judith. "Reading Mrs. Lloyd." Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and Annette Zilversmit. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (GRLH), Hamden, CT. Series No: 914. New York: Garland, 1992. 27-55.

Gabler-Hover, Janet, and Kathleen Plate. "The House of Mirth and Edith Wharton's 'Beyond!'." Philological Quarterly 72.3 (1993): 357-78.

Gair, Christopher. "The Crumbling Structure of 'Appearances': Representation and Authenticity in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 43.2 (1997): 349-73.

Garrison, Stephen. Edith Wharton : A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh series in bibliography. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

Gerard, Bonnie Lynn. "From Tea to Chloral: Raising the Dead Lily Bart." Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (1998): 409-27.

Gibson, Mary Ellis. "Edith Wharton and the Ethnography of Old New York." Studies in American Fiction 13.1 (1985): 57-69.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2, Sexchanges. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989

Gillan, Jennifer. "Plotting Political Personhood: Literary Self-Making and Contract-Breaking." Mosaic 35.3 (2002): 151-65.

Goldman, Irene C. "The Perfect Jew and The House of Mirth: A Study in Point of View." Modern Language Studies 23.2 (1993): 25-36. Also published as Goldman-Price, Irene. "The Perfect Jew and The House of Mirth: A Study in Point of View." Edith Wharton Review 16.1 (2000): 1; 2-9.

Goldner, Ellen J. "The Lying Woman and the Cause of Social Anxiety: Interdependence and the Woman's Body in The House of Mirth." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21.3 (1992): 285-305.

Goldsmith, Meredith. "Edith Wharton's Gift to Nella Larsen: The House of Mirth and Quicksand." Edith Wharton Review 11.2 (1994): 3-5, 15.

Goodman, Susan. Edith Wharton's Women : Friends & Rivals. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1990.

Goodman, Susan. Edith Wharton's Inner Circle. Literary modernism series. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Goodwyn, Janet. Edith Wharton : Traveller in the Land of Letters. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990.

Hadley, Kathy Miller. In the Interstices of the Tale : Edith Wharton's Narrative Strategies. American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature ; vol. 47. New York: P. Lang, 1993.

Herman, David. "Economies of Essence in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 16.1 (1999): 6-10.


---. "Style-Shifting in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Language and Literature 10.1 (2001): 61-77.

Hochman, Barbara. "The Rewards of Representation: Edith Wharton, Lily Bart and the Writer/Reader Interchange." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 24.2 (1991): 147-61.

Hochman, Barbara. "The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot." The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Ed. Donald Pizer. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP, 1995. 211-35.

Hoeller, Hildegard. "'The Impossible Rosedale': 'Race' and the Reading of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Studies in American Jewish Literature 13 (1994): 14-20.

Holbrook, David. Edith Wharton And The Unsatisfactory Man. Critical studies series. London and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Hovet, Grace Ann, and Theodore R. Hovet. "TABLEAUX VIVANTS: Masculine Vision and Feminine Reflections in Novels by Warner, Alcott, Stowe, and Wharton." American Transcendental Quarterly 7.4 (1993): 335-56.

Howard, Maureen. "The Bachelor and the Baby: The House of Mirth." The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Ed. Millicent Bell. Cambridge Companions to Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 137-56.

Howard, Maureen. "On The House of Mirth." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 15.3 (1996): 1-23.

Howe, Irving. Edith Wharton, A Collection Of Critical Essays. Twentieth century views. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Hutchinson, Stuart. "From Daniel Deronda to The House of Mirth." Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism 47.4 (1997): 315-31.

James, Henry, Edith Wharton, and Lyall Harris Powers. Henry James and Edith Wharton : letters, 1900-1915. New York: Scribner's, 1990.

Johnson, Laura K. "Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 47.4 (2001): 947-76.

Joslin, Katherine. Edith Wharton. Women writers. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1991.

Joslin, Katherine, and Alan Price. Wretched Exotic : Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature ; vol. 53. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Karcher, Carolyn L. "Male Vision and Female Revision in James's The Wings of the Dove and Wharton's The House of Mirth." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10.3 (1984): 227-244.

Kasanoff, Jennie A. "Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth." PMLA 115.1 (2000): 60-74.

Kaye, Richard A. "Literary Naturalism and the Passive Male: Edith Wharton's Revisions of The House of Mirth." Princeton University Library Chronicle 56.1 (1994): 46-72.

Kaye, Richard A. "Textual Hermeneutics and Belated Male Heroism: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and the Resistance to American Literary Naturalism." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 51.3 (1995): 87-116.

Khushu-Lahiri, Rajyashree. "Two Differing Worlds from One Thematic Clay: Wharton's The House of Mirth and James's the Portrait of a Lady." Indian Views on American Literature. Ed. A. A. (ed. and preface) Mutalik-Desai. New Delhi, India: Prestige, 1998. 25-35.

Killoran, Helen. Edith Wharton : Art and Allusion. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Koprince, Susan. "Edith Wharton's Hotels." Massachusetts Studies in English 10.1 (1985): 12-23.

Koprince, Susan. "The Meaning of Bellomount in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Newsletter 2.1 (1986): 1, 5, 8.

Langley, Martha R. "Botanical Language in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." (1980): Item 3.

Lauer, Kristin O., and Margaret P. Murray. Edith Wharton : an annotated secondary bibliography. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1027. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.

Leonard, Garry M. "The Paradox of Desire: Jacques Lacan and Edith Wharton." Edith Wharton Review 7.2 (1990): 13-16.

Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton : A Biography. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Lewis, R. W. B. Novels: The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence. New York, NY: Library of America, 1985.

Lidoff, Joan. "Another Sleeping Beauty: Narcissism in The House of Mirth." (1980): 519-39.

Lindberg, Gary H. Edith Wharton and the Novel of Manners. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975.

Loebel, Thomas. "Beyond Her Self." New Essays on The House of Mirth. Ed. Deborah Esch. American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 107-32.

Lyde, Marilyn Jones. Edith Wharton: convention and morality in the work of a novelist. [1st ] ed. Norman,: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.

MacMaster, Anne. "Beginning with the Same Ending: Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Selected Papers from Fifth Annual Conf. on Virginia Woolf." Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts. Eds. Beth Rigel Daugherty and Eileen Barrett. New York: Pace UP, 1996. 216-22.

Manheim, Daniel. "Wharton's The House of Mirth." Explicator 60.2 (2002): 81-83.

Martin, Sara. "A Taste of the Best: Social Habits in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and Abraham Cahan's the Rise of David Levinsky." JASAT (Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas) 29 (1998): 39-55.

McDowell, Margaret B. Edith Wharton. Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 265. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Mehaffy, Marilyn Maness. "Manipulating the Metaphors: The House of Mirth and 'the Volcanic Nether-Side' of 'Sexuality'." College Literature 21.2 (1994): 47-62.

Merish, Lori. "Engendering Naturalism: Narrative Form and Commodity Spectacle in U.S. Naturalist Fiction." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 29.3 (1996): 319-45.

Michelson, Bruce. "Edith Wharton's House Divided." Studies in American Fiction 12.2 (1984): 199-215.

Miller, Carol. "'Natural Magic': Irony as Unifying Strategy in The House of Mirth." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 4.1 (1987): 82-91.

Miller, Joshua. "Beauty and Democratic Power." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, & Culture 6.3 (2002): 277-97.

Moddelmog, William E. "Disowning 'Personality': Privacy and Subjectivity in The House of Mirth." American Literature 70.2 (1998): 337-63.

Montgomery, Maureen E. Displaying Women : Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Murfin, Ross C. "Marxist Criticism and The House of Mirth. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biog. & Hist. Contexts, Crit. Hist., & Essays from Five Contemp. Crit. Perspectives." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 359-74.

Nettels, Elsa. Language and Gender in American Fiction : Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Nevius, Blake. Edith Wharton : A Study of her Fiction. California Library reprint series ed ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Nyquist, Mary. "Determining Influences: Resistance and Mentorship in The House of Mirth and the Anglo-American Realist Tradition." New Essays on The House of Mirth. Ed. Deborah Esch. American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 43-105.

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. "Edith Wharton's Challenge to Feminist Criticism." Studies in American Fiction 16.2 (1988): 237-244.

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. "Wharton's 'Negative Hero' Revisited." Edith Wharton Newsletter 6.1 (1989): 6, 8.

Orr, Elaine N. "Contractual Law, Relational Whisper: A Reading of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 52.1 (1991): 53-70.

Orr, Elaine Neil. Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 1997.

Papke, Mary E. Verging on the Abyss : The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton. Contributions in women's studies no. 119. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Pasquaretta, Paul. "Gambling against the House: Anglo and Indian Perspectives on Gambling in American Literature." Mosaic 34.1 (2001): 137-52.

Pickrel, Paul. "Vanity Fair in America: The House of Mirth and Gone with the Wind." American Literature 59.1 (1987): 37-57.

Pizer, Donald. "The Naturalism of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 41.2 (1995): 241-48.

Plate, Kathleen. "The House of Mirth and Edith Wharton's "Beyond!" Philological Quarterly 72.3 (Summer 1993): 357+ .


Price, Alan. The End of the Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton and the First World War. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Price, Alan. "Lily Bart and Carrie Meeber: Cultural Sisters." American Literary Realism: 1870-1910 13 (1980): 238-45.

Quawas, Rula. "Lily Bart in The House of Mirth: A Swamp-Hatched Butterfly." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 45 (2002): 217-31.


Quoyeser, Catherine. "The Antimodernist Unconscious: Genre and Ideology in The House of Mirth." Arizona Quarterly 44.4 (1989): 55-79.

Raphael, Lev. Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame : A New Perspective on her Neglected Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. Speaking the Other Self : American Women Writers. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Restuccia, Frances L. "The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(s)." Contemporary Literature 28.2 (1987): 223-238.

Riegel, Christian. "Rosedale and Anti-Semitism in The House of Mirth." Studies in American Fiction 20.2 (1992): 219-24.

Robinson, Lillian S. "The Traffic in Women: A Cultural Critique of The House of Mirth. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biog. & Hist. Contexts, Crit. Hist., & Essays from Five Contemp. Crit. Perspectives." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 340-58.

Rohrbach, Augusta. 'Truth Stranger Than Fiction': Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Chapter 5 discusses race in The House of Mirth.

Rosk, Nancy Von. "Spectacular Homes and Pastoral Theaters: Gender, Urbanity and Domesticity in The House of Mirth." Studies in the Novel 33.3 (2001): 322-50.

Sapora, Carol Baker. "Female Doubling: The Other Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 29.4 (1993): 371-94.

Saunders, Catherine E. Writing the Margins : Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and the Literary Tradition of the Ruined Woman. The LeBaron Russell Briggs prize honors essay in English ; 1986. Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of English and American Literature and Language Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1987.

Seltzer, Mark. "Statistical Persons." Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 17.3 (1987): 82-98.

Showalter, Elaine. "The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth." Representations 9 (1985): 133-149.

Showalter, Elaine. Sister's Choice : Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1991.

Shulman, Robert. "Divided Selves and the Market Society: Politics and Psychology in The House of Mirth." Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 11 (1985): 10-19.

Singley, Carol J. Edith Wharton : Matters of Mind and Spirit. Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 92. Cambridge England ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Singley, Carol J. "Edith Wharton and Partnership: The House of Mirth, the Decoration of Houses, and 'Copy'." American Literary Mentors. Ed. Irene C. Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 1999. 96-116.

Springer, Marlene. Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin : A Reference Guide. Reference guides in literature ; no. 5. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.

Stange, Margit. Personal Property : Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Sullivan, Ellie Ragland. "The Daughter's Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Complete, Authoritative Text with Biog. & Hist. Contexts, Crit. Hist., & Essays from Five Contemp. Crit. Perspectives." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 464-81.

Tillman, Lynne. "A Mole in the House of the Modern." New Essays on The House of Mirth. Ed. Deborah Esch. American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 133-58.

Tintner, Adeline R. "Two Novels of 'the Relatively Poor': New Grub Street and The House of Mirth." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 6.2 (1982): Item 12.

Tintner, Adeline. "Preface to The House of Mirth (La Preface pour Chez les heureux du monde (1908) translated by Charles Du Bos)." Edith Wharton Review 8.1 (1991): 19-23, 31.

Totten, Gary. "The Art and Architecture of the Self: Designing the 'I'-Witness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." College Literature 27.3 (2000): 71-87.

Tuttleton, James W., Kristin O. Lauer, and Margaret P. Murray. Edith Wharton : the contemporary reviews. The American critical archives ; 2. Cambridge England ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Tyson, Lois. "Beyond Morality: Lily Bart, Lawrence Selden and the Aesthetic Commodity in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 9.2 (1992): 3-10.

Vita-Finzi, Penelope. Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction. London: Pinter, 1990.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. The House of Mirth : A Novel of Admonition. Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 52. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Waid, Candace. "Building The House of Mirth." Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Ed. James Barbour and Tom Quirk. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. 160-86.

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Wershoven, Carol. The Female Intruder in the Novels of Edith Wharton. Rutherford N.J. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses, 1982.

Wershoven, C. J. "The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Studies of Arrested Development." American Literary Realism 19.3 (1987): 27-41.

Westbrook, Wayne W. "Lily-Bartering on the New York Social Exchange in The House of Mirth." Ball State University Forum 20: (1979): 59-64.

Wharton, Edith, R. W. B. Lewis, and Nancy Lewis. The Letters of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner, 1988.

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Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Lily Bart and Masquerade Inscribed in the Female Mode." Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. Eds. Katherine Joslin and Alan Price. American University Studies XXIV: American Literature (AmLit), New York, NY. Series No: 53. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. 259-94.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Lily Bart and the Drama of Femininity." American Literary History 6.1 (1994): 71-87.

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