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Selected Bibliography of Recent Criticism
The Reef

Inness, Sherrie A. "Nature, Culture, and Sexual Economics in Edith Wharton's The Reef." American
Literary Realism 26.1 (1993): 76-90.

Jones, Wendell, Jr. "Holding up the Revealing Lamp: The Myth of Psyche in Edith Wharton's The
Reef." College Literature 19.1 (1992): 75-90.

Kaye, Richard A. "Edith Wharton and the 'New Gomorrahs' of Paris: Homosexuality, Flirtation, and
Incestuous Desire in The Reef." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 43.4 (1997): 860-97.

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.

Macnaughton, William R. "Wharton's The Reef." Explicator 51.4 (1993): 227-30.

Macnaughton, William R. "Edith Wharton's 'Bad Heroine': Sophy Viner in The Reef." Studies in the
Novel 25.2 (1993): 213-25.

Macnaughton, William R. "Edith Wharton, The Reef and Henry James." American Literary Realism
26.2 (1994): 43-59.

Walker, Nancy. "Mothers and Lovers: Edith Wharton's The Reef and The Mother's Recompense."
The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Contributions to the
Study of World Literature. Series No: 46. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 91-98.