VI. Dissertation

Brown, Lee Kroeger. "The Social and Economic Necessity of Marriage in Edith Wharton's New York Novels." Diss., 2002.

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.

Fanetti, Susan. "The Mirthful Medusa: The Transgressive Act of Writing Women in the Works of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 65.5 (2004): 1779-80.

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.

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.

Jagoe, Ann Spotswood. "Rhetoric in the Service of Art: Argument in Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' and The Age of Innocence." Texas Woman's U, 1997.

Jasin, Soledad Herrero-Ducloux. "Sex and Suicide in Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Awakening and The House of Mirth." U of Texas Austin, 1996.

Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice : Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925." Diss. 2002.

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.

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.]

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.

Pogue, Laura Lyn Bearrie. "Devouring Words: Eating and Feeding in Selected Fiction of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather." Baylor U, 2001.

Rich, Charlotte Jennifer. "Transgression and Convention: The New Woman and the Fiction of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman." U of Georgia, 1998.

 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.

Weckerle, Lisa Jeanne. "Revisioning Narratives: Feminist Adaptation Strategies on Stage and Screen." U of Texas Austin, 2000.

Weckerle, Lisa Jeanne. “Revisioning Narratives: Feminist Adaptation Strategies on Stage and Screen.” Diss. U of Texas Austin, 2000.

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.