V. The House of Mirth

A. Websites Reference

1. The Film

“A Woman’s Business” http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/archive/004q/houseofmirth.shtml

Edith Wharton’s World (very good) http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm 

Imbd: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200720/

Reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_mirth/ 

SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mirth/

Synopsis and photos: http://www.tribute.ca/synopsis.asp?m_id=1952 

Wharton’s biography (powerpoint slides):

www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~pcfeng/powerpoint/innocence-final.ppt

2. The Novel

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth

SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mirth/

The House of Mirth (e-text): http://www.online-literature.com/wharton/house_mirth/

B. Bibliography

1. The Film

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.

Porton, Richard. “The Discreet Charm of the Leisure Class: Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth.” Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. Eds. Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo. New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Rohrbach, Augusta. "Sexing the Lily: Shadows and Darkness in Terence Davies' The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 20.1 (Spring 2004): 19-25.

2. The Novel

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

Barnett, Louise K. "Language, Gender, and Society in The House of Mirth." Connecticut Review 11.2 (1989): 54-63.

Bauer, Dale Marie. "The Failure of Community: Women and Resistance in Hawthorne's, James's, and Wharton's Novels." 1986.

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

Bazin, Nancy Topping. "The Destruction of Lily Bart: Capitalism, Christianity, and Male Chauvinism." Denver Quarterly 17.4 (1983): 97-108.

Beaty, Robin. "Lilies That Fester: Sentimentality in The House of Mirth." College Literature 14.3 (1987): 263-75.

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

Benoit, Raymond. "Wharton's House of Mirth." Explicator 29 (1971): Item 59.

Beppu, Keiko. "The Moral Significance of Living Space: The Library and Kitchen in The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 3-7.

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.

Brazin, Nancy Topping. "The Destruction of Lily Bart: Capitalism, Christianity, and Male Chauvinism." Denver Quarterly 17.4 (1983): 97-108.

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.

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 Fiction and Culture." Cornell U, 1993.

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.

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

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.

Dahl, Curtis. "Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: Sermon on a Text." Modern Fiction Studies 21 (1975): 572-76.

Di Giuseppe, Rita. "Dialectic of Transvaluation in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension. Ed. John D. Simons. Florida State Univ. Conference on Literature and Film. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. 11-24.

Dimock, Wai-chee. "Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." PMLA: 100.5 (1985): 783-92.

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 W. Jones. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 133-54.

Dixon, Roslyn. "Reflecting Vision in The House of Mirth." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 33.2 (1987): 211-22.

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

Dunlap, Lynn. "The Cinematographic Novel: Specularity and Narrative Authority in The House of Mirth, Mansfield Park and Villette." U of Washington, 1992.ed., and Shari Benstock, eds. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.ed., and Deborah Esch, eds. 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. Ed. Lynette --Kolmar Carpenter, Wendy K. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991. 80-107.

Fetterley, Judith. "'The 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 and New York: St. Martin's, 1986. 154-74.

Friman, Anne. "Determinism and Point of View in The House of Mirth." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 2 (1966): 175-78.

Fryer, Judith. "Reading Mrs. Lloyd." Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays. Ed. Alfred. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. 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." Modern Fiction Studies 43.2 (1997): 349-73.

Gargano, James W. "The House of Mirth: Social Futility and Faith." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 44 (1972): 137-43.

Gerard, Bonnie Lynn. "From Tea to Chloral: Raising the Dead Lily Bart." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 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.

--- "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.

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.

Horne, Philip. "Beauty's Slow Fade." Sight and Sound 10.10 (2000): 14-18.

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.

Jones, Suzanne W. "Edith Wharton's 'Secret Sensitiveness,' the Decoration of Houses, and Her Fiction." Journal of Modern Literature 21.2 (1997): 177-200.

Joslin, Katherine, and Alan Price. Wretched Exotic : Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. New York: P. Lang, 1993.

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): 227-44.

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

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.

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

Lewis, R. W. B., ed. The House of Mirth. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

Lidoff, Joan. "Another Sleeping Beauty: Narcissism in The House of Mirth." American Quarterly 32 (1980): 519-39.

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

MacMaster, Anne. "Beginning with the Same Ending: Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton." Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Beth Rigel andBarrett Daugherty, Eileen. New York: Pace UP, 1996. 216-22.

McIlvaine, Robert. "Edith Wharton's American Beauty Rose." Journal of American Studies 7 (1973): 183-85.

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.

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

Moore, Kathleen. "Edith Wharton's Lily Bart and the Subject of Agency." Edith Wharton Review 19.1 (Spring 2003): 8-15.

Murfin, Ross C. "Psychoanalytic Criticism and The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 447-63.

---. "Feminist Criticism and The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 391-402.

---. "Cultural Criticism and The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 326-39.

Norris, Margot. "Death by Speculation: Deconstructing The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 431-46.

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.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 43-105.

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. "Edith Wharton's Challenge to Feminist Criticism." Studies in American Fiction 16.2 (1988): 237-44.

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

---. "Wharton through a Kristevan Lens: The Maternality of The Gods Arrive." Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. Eds. Katherine Joslin and Alan Price. New York. Peter Lang, 1993. 295-312.

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.

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

Poirier, Richard. "Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth." The American Novel from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. Ed. Wallace Stegner. New York: Basic, 1965. 117-32.

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

Restuccia, Frances L. "The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(S)." Contemporary Literature 28.2 (1987): 223-38.

---. "The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(S)." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 404-18.

Robinson, Lillian S. "The Traffic in Women: A Cultural Critique of The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 340-58.

Rooke, Constance. "Beauty in Distress: Daniel Deronda and The House of Mirth." Women & Literature 4.2 (1976): 28-39.

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.

Showalter, Elaine. "The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's The House of Mirth." Representations 9 (1985): 133-49.

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

Sullivan, Ellie Ragland. "The Daughter's Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth. Ed. Shari Benstock. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 464-81.

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.

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.

Wharton, Edith, and Elizabeth Ammons. The House of Mirth. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1990.

Wolff, Cynthia G. "Lily Bart and the Beautiful Death." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 46 (1974): (16)-40.

---. "Lily Bart and Masquerade Inscribed in the Female Mode." Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. Ed. Katherine --Price Joslin, Alan. American University Studies Xxiv: American Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. 259-94.

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

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.