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Edith Wharton:  Current Bibliography

  • INDIVIDUAL WORKS: Bibliographies of Individual Works (compiled from the MLA Bibliography and other sources)
  • CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY: Current scholarship on Edith Wharton, 1999 to the present (includes dissertations, articles, and books)
  • COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. This page contains works on Edith Wharton from 1953 to the present.  Warning: With 1,361 entries, it is a very long page.
  • FILMOGRAPHY. Filmography of Wharton's works made into movies
  • RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography of Wharton criticism, fiction about Wharton, and bibliographies of individual novels composed of works recommended by Wharton Society members and WHARTON-L subscribers. If you have a work to recommend, please contact us.
  • Newly added to bibliographies:

    Added to comprehensive bibliography: Christina Zwarg in "Womanizing Margaret Fuller: Theorizing a Lover's Discourse," Cultural Critique 16 (Fall 1990):161-191, relates the publication of "Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller" to Edith Wharton's story "The Touchstone." Please send comments and suggestions to D. Campbell.

    2004

  • Blair, Amy L. "Misreading The House of Mirth." American Literature 76.1 (2004): 149-75.
  • Buckalew, Kimberly Paige. "Fictional Bridges: Modern Female Heroines in Edith Wharton's Five Major Novels (1905-1920)." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.10 (2004): 3694.
  • Chung, Hae-Ok. "Marriage as a Business Contract: Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." Nineteenth Century Literature in English 8.1 (2004): 179-95.
  • Costanzo Cahir, Linda. "A Tribute to Scott Marshall." Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004):4-6.
  • de Marneffe, Barbara. "In Memory: Eulogy for Scott Marshall."Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 4.
  • Emsley, Sarah. "Sexual Purity and Relentless Indecision in Wharton's The Reef: A Reply to Menon." New Compass: A Critical Review 3 (2004): (no. p.)
  • Griffith, Jean Carol. "Reading White Space: Placing Race in the Novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.12 (2004): 4464.
  • Jones, Suzanne W. "The 'Beyondness of Things' in the Buccaneers: Vernon Lee's Influence on Edith Wharton's Sense of Place." Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 8.1 (2004): 7-30.
  • Kassanoff, Jennie A. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race. Cambridge, England : Cambridge UP, 2004.
  • Marshall, Scott. "'More and More Never Apart': Edith Wharton and Henry James at the Mount." [A reading for two actors compiled and arranged by Scott Marshall.] Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 25-27.
  • Nicholls, Mark. "Male Melancholia and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence." Film Quarterly 58.1 (2004): 25-35.
  • Nowlin, Michael. "Edith Wharton's Higher Provincialism: French Ways for American and the Ends of The Age of Innocence." Journal of American Studies 38 (2004): 89-108.
  • Ohler, Paul Joseph. "'the Poetic Value of the Evolutionary Conception': Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels of Edith Wharton, 1905-1920." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.10 (2004): 3688.
  • Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. "Remembering Scott Marshall." Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004):6.
  • Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. "Edith Wharton's War Elegies."Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 6-12.
  • Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War. Gainesville, FL : UP of Florida, 2004.
  • Ray, Martin. "Edith Wharton and the Serialization of the Trumpet-Major." Thomas Hardy Journal 20.2 (2004): 67-69.
  • Rohrbach, Augusta. "Sexing the Lily: Shadows and Darkness in Terence Davies' House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 19-25.
  • Rudkin, Casey J. "Wharton's New Year's Day (the 'Seventies)." Explicator 63.1 (2004): 32-34.
  • Skaggs, Carmen Trammell. "Looking through the Opera Glasses: Performance and Artifice in The Age of Innocence." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37.1 (2004): 49-61.
  • Tebbetts, Terrell. "Conformity, Desire, and the Critical Self in Wharton's The Age of Innocence." Philological Review 30.1 (2004): 25-38.
  • Weckerle, Lisa. Taming the Transgressive: A Feminist Analysis of the Film Adaptation of 'The Old Maid.'" Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004):12-19.
  • Zilversmit, Annette. "I Met Him through a Personal Ad: Or, How It All Began." Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 2-4.
  • 2003

  • Campbell, Donna M. "The 'Bitter Taste' of Naturalism: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox." In Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. 237-259.
  • Costanzo Cahir, Linda. "Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 20-23.
  • Emsley, Sarah. "A 'Better English': Edith Wharton on Language in Fiction." Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 23-27.
  • Fields, Anne M. "'Years Hence of These Scenes': Wharton's The Spark and World War I." Edith Wharton Review 19.2 (Fall 2003): 1, 5-10.
  • Goodman, Susan. Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940.
    Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. [Concentrating on six writers-William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset-Susan Goodman recovers the broader meaning of "manners" for past generations and demonstrates that American writers have consistently tied the subject of national identity to the norms and behaviors of everyday life-that, in fact, the novel of manners is a dominant form of American fiction.-- Submitted by MHK]
  • McManus, Caroline. "Subverting Romantic Comedy: Edith Wharton's Reading of Shakespeare in The House of Mirth." Studies in Philology 100.1 (2003): 87-104.
  • Moore, Kathleen. "Edith Wharton's Lily Bart and the Subject of Agency." Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 8-15.
  • Nowlin, Michael. "'Before the Country's Awakening': Aesthetic Misjudgment and National Growth in The Spark." Edith Wharton Review 19.2 (Fall 2003): 10-15.
  • Orlando, Emily J. Body Art: Women, Art, and Representation in Edith Wharton, University of Maryland (doctoral dissertation), 2002. [From the author: It's a study of Wharton's engagement with the visual arts, esp. 19th-century painting.]
  • Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Student Companion to Edith Wharton. Student Companions to Classic Writers,. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
  • Saltz, Laura. "From Image to Text: Modernist Transformations in Edith Wharton's 'The Muse's Tragedy.'" Edith Wharton Review 19.2 (Fall 2003): 15-21.
  • Saunders, Judith P. "Wharton's Borrowing from Crane's Maggie in The Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 1, 4-8.
  • Singley, Carol J. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. Historical Guides to American Authors. New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Singley, Carol J. "Race, Culture, Nation: Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan." Twentieth Century Literature 49.1 (2003): 14+. (Full text available)
  • Stevenson, Pascha Antrece. "Ethan Frome and Charity Royall: Edith Wharton's Noble Savages." Women's Studies 32.4 (2003): 411-29.
  • Thompson, Terry. W. "'All Souls' Edith Wharton's Homage to 'The Jolly Corner.'" Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 15-20.
  • Thompson, Terry W. "Wharton's 'Bewitched'." Explicator 61.3 (2003): 155-58.
  • Wang, Shunzhu. "The Double-Voiced Feminine Discourses: A Comparative Study of Women Writers in Modern Chinese Literature and Modern American Literature." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 63.1 (2002): 179.
  • Wegener, Frederick. "Edith Wharton and Ronald Simmons: Documenting a Pivotal Wartime Friendship." Yale University Library Gazette 77 (2002): 51-85.
  • Werlock, Abby. "The Custom of the Country: George Sand's Indiana and Edith Wharton's Indiana/Undine." Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (2002): 1-7.
  • Witherow, Jean. "A Dialectic of Deception: Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence." Mosaic 36.3 (2003): 165-80.
  • 2002

  • [From the editor of the books]: Here are  two books related to Wharton: a collection of short stories titled "La carta", and an anthology of her travel narratives. 
  • La carta. Relatos de Edith Wharton, ed. Teresa Gómez Reus, Barcelona, Clásicos del Bronce, 1999. Trad. Teresa Gómez
  • Edith Wharton. Cuaderno de Viajes, ed. Teresa Gómez Reus, Bacelona, Grijalbo-Mondadori, 2001. Trad. Ana Eiroa and Teresa Gómez
  • Batcos, Stephanie. "In "the Service of Letters" : A Study of Edith Wharton's Nonfiction and Its Relationship to Her Fiction." Diss., 2002.
  • Beer, Janet. Edith Wharton. Writers and Their Work. Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2002.
  • Bloom, Harold. Edith Wharton. Bloom's Major Novelists. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002.
  • Collas, Philippe. Edith Wharton and the French Riviera. Paris and London: Flammarion;Thames & Hudson, 2002.
  • Brown, Jane K. "Goethe and American Literature: The Case of Edith Wharton." Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Eds. Nicholas Boyle and John Guthrie. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture (Sgllc): Camden House, Woodbridge, England, 2002. vi, 285.
  • Brown, Lee Kroeger. "The Social and Economic Necessity of Marriage in Edith Wharton's New York Novels." Diss., 2002.
  • Campbell, Donna. "'The (American) Muse's Tragedy': Jack London and Edith Wharton."Jack London : One Hundred Years a Writer.  Ed.Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Sara S. Hodson.San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library Press, 2002.
  • Dean, Sharon L. Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton : Perspectives on Landscape and Art. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
  • Emmert, Scott. "Drawing-Room Naturalism in Edith Wharton's Early Short Stories." Journal of the Short Story in English 39 (2002): 57-71.
  • Gillan, Jennifer. "Plotting Political Personhood: Literary Self-Making and Contract-Breaking." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 35.3 (2002): 151-65.
  • Haytock, Jennifer. "Marriage and Modernism in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.2 (2002): 216-29.
  • Hersey, Eleanor Longridge. "Ravishing Television: Adapting Women's Fiction for the Small Screen." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.12 (2002): 4159.
  • Horne, Philip. "The Age of Innocence: Scorsese, Wharton and James." Film Studies: An International Review 3 (2002): 5-17.
  • Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice : Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925." Diss. 2002.
  • Joslin, Katherine. "'Embattled Tendencies': Wharton, Woolf and the Nature of Modernism." Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms 1854-1936. Eds. Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett: Manchester UP, Manchester, England, 2002. vi-x, 266.
  • Kaye, Richard A. The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
  • Killoran, Helen. The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton. Studies in American Literature and Culture. Literary Criticism in Perspective. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001.(Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Korovessis, Despina. "The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton's Critique of American Society." Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy. Ed. Christine Dunn Henderson: Lexington, Lanham, MD, 2002. xvi, 170.
  • Kress, Jill M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Lee, Hermione. "Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911-1937 Selected and with Notes by Maureen Howard." The New York Review of Books 48.15 (2001): 5.
  • Levine, Jessica. Delicate Pursuit : Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton. Studies in Major Literary Authors ; V. 13. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Maine, Barry. "Reading 'the Portrait': Edith Wharton and John Singer Sargent." Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (2002): 7-14.
  • Manheim, Daniel. "Wharton's The House of Mirth." Explicator 60.2 (2002): 81-83.
  • Miller, Joshua. "Beauty and Democratic Power." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, & Culture 6.3 (2002): 277-97.
  • Mindrup, Emilie F. "The Mnemonic Impulse: Reading Edith Wharton's Summer as Propaganda." Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (2002): 14-22.
  • Muhammad, Suzana Haji. "Voices of Disobedience in the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, and Mary Austin." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.9 (2002): 3048.
  • Petrie, Windy Counsell. "Artists, Celebrities, and Reformers: American Women Literary Autobiographers in the 1930s." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.9 (2002): 3048-49.
  • Pifer, Ellen. "'Did She Have a Precursor?': Lolita and Edith Wharton's the Children." Nabokov's World, I: The Shape of Nabokov's World. Eds. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin and Priscilla Meyer. Studies in Russia and East Europe Number: 1: II: Reading Nabokov; Palgrave, with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Houndmills, England, 2002. xvi, 237 + xvii, 41.
  • Quawas, Rula. "Lily Bart in the House of Mirth: A Swamp-Hatched Butterfly." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 45 (2002): 217-31.
  • Rohrbach, Augusta. Truth Stranger than Fiction": Race, Realism, and the US Literary Marketplace. New York: Palgrave, 2002. (Reviewed in the Edith Wharton Review)
  • Saunders, Judith P. "Portrait of the Artist as Anthropologist: Edith Wharton and the Age ofInnocence." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 4.1 (2002): 86-101.
  • Sloboda, Noel Jason. "The Making of Americans in Paris: The Autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 63.5 (2002): 1829.
  • Thompson, Stephanie Lewis. Influencing America's Tastes: Realism in the Works of Wharton, Cather, and Hurst. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002
  • Villasur, Belâen Vidal. "Classic Adaptations, Modern Reinventions: Reading the Image in the Contemporary Literary Film." Screen 43.1 (2002): 5-18.
  • Werlock, Abby. "The Custom of the Country: George Sand's Indiana and Edith Wharton'sIndiana/Undine." Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (2002): 1-7.
  • Wharton, Edith, and Candace Waid.. The Age of Innocence : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Norton critical ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
  • Zihala, Maryann. Edith Wharton's Old New York Society. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002.
  • 2001

  • Barrish, Phillip.  American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Chapter 5, "What Nona Knows," focuses on Wharton's Twilight Sleep.
  • Dawson, Melanie V. "'Too Young for the Part': Narrative Closure and Feminine Evolution in Wharton's '20s Fiction." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 57.4 (2001): 89-119.
  • Esch, Deborah. New Essays on the House of Mirth. The American Novel. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Herman, David. "Style-Shifting in Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth." Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association 10.1 (2001): 61-77.
  • Hudak, Jennifer Klein. "The Social Inventors: Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women's Writing in Context." U of Rochester, 2001.
  • Johnson, Laura K. "Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 47.4 (2001): 947-76.
  • Kozloff, Sarah. " Complicity in The Age of Innocence." Style (Summer 2001) (Full text available.)
  • Loebel, Thomas. "Beyond Her Self." New Essays on the House of Mirth. Ed. Deborah Esch. American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 107-32. 
  • Lynch, Jacquelyn Scott. "Darwin Matters: Modernism and Mate Choice in Wharton, Joyce and Hurston." Arizona State U, 2001.
  • MacNaughton, William R. "The Artist as Moralist: Edith Wharton's Revisions to the Last Chapter of the Custom of the Country." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 37.1 (2001): 51-64.
  • Marchand, Mary V. "Death to Lady Bountiful: Women and Reform in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (2001): 65-78.
  • McGee, Diane E. Writing the Meal : Dinner in the Fiction of Early Twentieth-Century Women Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • Mainwaring, Marion. Mysteries of Paris : The Quest for Morton Fullerton. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001.(Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Nettels, Elsa. "Wharton and Cather." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (2001): 139-56.
  • Nowlin, Michael. "Edith Wharton and the Matter of Contexts." Studies in the Novel 33.2 (2001): 224-28.
  • 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. 
  • Parisier, Nicole Heidi. "Novel Work: Theater and Journalism in the Writing of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Warton and Willa Cather." Yale U, 2001.
  • Pasquaretta, Paul. "Gambling against the House: Anglo and Indian Perspectives on Gambling in American Literature." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 34.1 (2001): 137-52.
  • Pierpont, Claudia Roth. "April 2, 2001 - a Critic at Large - Cries and Whispers - Edith Wharton Wrote What She Couldn't Say." The New Yorker (2001): 10+.
  • Pogue, Laura Lyn Bearrie. "Devouring Words: Eating and Feeding in Selected Fiction of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather." Baylor U, 2001.
  • Sweeney, Gerard M. "Wharton's 'the Other Two'." Explicator 59.2 (2001): 88-91.
  • Thornton, Edie. "Selling Edith Wharton: Illustration, Advertising, and Pictorial Review, 1924-1925." Arizona Quarterly 57.3 (2001): 29-59.
  • 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.
  • Von Rosk, Nancy. "Spectacular Homes and Pastoral Theaters: Gender, Urbanity and Domesticity in the House of Mirth." Studies in the Novel 33.3 (2001): 322-50.
  • Wallace, Diana. "Ventriloquizing the Male: Two Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man by May Sinclair and Edith Wharton." Men and Masculinities 4.4 (2002): 322-33.
  • Wegener, Frederick. ""Rabid Imperialist": Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction." American Literature 72.4 (2001): 783-812.
  • Wharton, Edith. "Harems and Ceremonies." The Yale Review 89.3 (2001): 23.
  • Williams, Deborah Lindsay. Not in Sisterhood : Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001.(Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. "The Conspicuous Wasting of Lily Bart." New Essays on the House of Mirth. Ed. Deborah Esch. American Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 15-41. 
  • 2000

  • Bratton, Daniel, and Carol Williams, eds. Yrs, Ever Affly: The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield.  Michigan State University Press, 2000.
  • Bryson, Tracy L. “Telling It Slant: Perspective Relocation in Novels by Twain, Wharton, Cather and Roth.” Diss. Purdue U, 2000.
  • Frederick, Wegener. “'Rabid Imperialist': Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction.” American Literature 72.4 (2000): 783-812.
  • Gentry, Deborah.  The Art of Dying : Suicide in the Works of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Sylvia Plath.  American University Studies. Series XXIV,  American Literature. Peter Lang, 2000. (October 2000)
  • Gold, Harriet. “Marriage in The Glimpses of the Moon.” Edith Wharton Review 16.1 (2000): 13-17.
  • 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.
  • Gschwend, Kate. “The Significance of the Sawmill: Technological Determinism in Ethan Frome.” Edith Wharton Review 16.1 (2000): 9-13.
  • Hoeller, Hildegard. Edith Wharton's Dialogue With Realism and Sentimental Fiction. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2000. (Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Horne, Philip. “Beauty's Slow Fade.” Sight and Sound 10.10 (2000): 14-18.
  • Hutchinson, Stuart. “'Beyond' George Eliot? Reconsidering Edith Wharton.” Modern Language Review 95.4 (2000): 942-53.
  • Kassanoff, Jennie A. "Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth." PMLA 115.1 (January 2000): 60-75.
  • Lee, Robert A. “Watching Manners: Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innnocence.” The Classic Novel: From Page to Screen. Ed. Giddings Robert Sheen Erica. Manchester, England--New York, NY: Manchester UP--St. Martin's, 2000. 163-78.
  • Marie, Wood Jane. “Gauging the Internal Barometer: Social Class and the Formation of Identity in Wharton, Catheran, d Allison.” Diss. U of Kansas, 2000.
  • McCorvie, Wham Lynn. “Garland and Wharton: Tensions between Socioeconomic Determinism and Autonomy.” Diss. New York U, 2000.
  • Schwarz, Ann. “One Teacher's Portrait: Reading and Teaching through Edith Wharton's Silences.” Diss. Teachers College, 2000.
  • Smith, Christopher, ed. Readings on Ethan Frome (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to American Literature). Greenwood Press, 2000. 
  • Swift, Jennifer.  "'The Cathedral's Word to the Traveller': The Past and Nostalgia in the Work of Edith Wharton."  Diss. SUNY at Buffalo, 2000. UMI # 9967854.
  • 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.
  • Weckerle, Lisa Jeanne. “Revisioning Narratives: Feminist Adaptation Strategies on Stage and Screen.” Diss. U of Texas Austin, 2000.
  • 1999

  • Asya, Ferda. “Resolutions of Guilt: Cultural Values Reconsidered in Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence.” Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 15-20.
  • Cahir, Linda Costanzo. Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton. Greenwood Press, 1999.(Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Camodeca, Gina Murial. “Indelicate Constitutions: The Discourses of Illness and American Literature in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.9 (1999): 3453.
  • Caws, Mary Ann. “Translation of the Self: Ruskin and Wharton.” Massachusetts Review 40.2 (1999): 165-73.
  • Colquitt, Clare, Susan Goodman, and Candace Waid, eds. A Forward Glance : New Essays on Edith Wharton.  University of Delaware Press, 1999.
  • 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.
  • Harvey, Anne-Marie. “'Each Man Was a Perfect Cog; Each Held a Flame Within': Manhood in London, Lewis, Wharton, and the Curtis Magazines.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.5 (1999): 1558-59.
  • Hutchinson, Stuart. “Unpackaging Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome and Summer.” Cambridge Quarterly 27.3 (1998): 219-32.
  • Killoran, Helen. “Meetings of Minds: Edith Wharton as Mentor and Guide.” American Literary Mentors. Ed. Irene Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 117-30.
  • Kohn, Denise Marie. “Novel Re-Visions: Women Writers and the Reshaping of American Popular and Literary Culture.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.7 (1999): 2504.
  • Kornetta, Reiner. “Edith Wharton's 'The Angel at the Grave' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.” Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 21-24.
  • Louis, Margot K. “Proserpine and Pessimism: Goddesses of Death, Life, and Language from Swinburne to Wharton.” Modern Philology 96.3 (1999): 312-46.
  • Mortimer, Armine Kotin. “Romantic Fever: The Second Story as Illegitimate Daughter in Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.” Narrative 6.2 (1998): 188-98.
  • Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. “Female Models and Male Mentors in Wharton's Early Fiction.”American Literary Mentors. Ed. Irene Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 84-95.
  • Preston, Claire. “Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel.” Soft Canons: American  Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen Kilcup. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. 184-201.
  • Preston, Claire. Edith Wharton's Social Register. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  • Price, Alan. “'Far More Than They Know': Current Wharton Studies.” Review 19 (1997): 237-51.
  • Ramsden, George, comp. Edith Wharton's Library: A Catalogue. With a  foreword by Hermione Lee. Settrington, Stone Trough Books, 1999.
  • Singley, Carol J. “Edith Wharton and Partnership: The House of Mirth, The Decoration of Houses, and 'Copy'.” American Literary Mentors. Ed. Irene Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 96-116.
  • Tintner, Adeline. Edith Wharton in Context : Essays on Intertextuality. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. (Reviewed in The Edith Wharton Review)
  • Wilson-Jordan, Jacqueline Suzanne. “Written on the Border: Storytelling and the Abject Subject in Edith Wharton's Ghost Tales.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.4 (1999): 1138-39.

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