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Wharton, Edith

  1. In Auchincloss, Louis. Pioneers and Caretakers; a Study of 9 American Women Novelists. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1965]. pp. 20-55.
    Criticism -- Works

  2. In Auchincloss, Louis. Reflections of a Jacobite. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. pp. 11-28.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Age of Innocence -- The Custom of the Country -- The House of Mirth

  3. In Bewley, Marius. Masks and Mirrors: Essays in Criticism. New York: Atheneum, 1970. pp. 145-153.
    Criticism -- Ethan Frome

  4. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Naturalism. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004. pp. 273-298.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  5. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1950, Vol. 3. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c1997-c1998. pp. 204-229.
    Criticism -- Works --

  6. In Brooks, Van Wyck. The Confident Years: 1885-1915. New York: Dutton, 1952. pp. 275-293.
    Criticism -- Works

  7. In Cooper, Frederic Taber. Some American Story Tellers. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1968]. pp. 168-195.
    Criticism -- Works

  8. In Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. pp. 266-269.
    Biography. Criticism -- Novels

  9. In Delbanco, Andrew. Required Reading. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. pp. 155-172.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The Age of Innocence -- The Buccaneers

  10. In Duke, David. Distant Obligations: Modern American Writers and Foreign Causes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. pp. 62-100.
    Biography.

  11. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York, Macmillan, 1933. pp. 196-205.
    Criticism -- Works --

  12. In Felder, Deborah. Bookshelf of Our Own. New York : Citadel Press, c2005. pp. 84-89.
    Criticism -- House of Mirth

  13. In Fleischman, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisited . Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982. pp. 209-224.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Age of Innocence -- Women in Literature

  14. In Follett, Helen Thomas. Some Modern Novelists; Appreciations and Estimates. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1967]. pp. 291-311.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Valley of Decision

  15. In Gardiner, Harold C. Fifty Years of the American Novel; a Christian Appraisal. New York: Scribner, 1951. pp. 15-32.
    Biography. Criticism -- Works

  16. In Gelfant, Blanche H. The American City Novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. pp. 107-119.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Age of Innocence -- The House of Mirth

  17. Gerard, Bonnie Lynn. "Raising the Dead Lily Bart" In Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2, Winter 1998. pp. 409-427.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  18. In Hardwick, Elizabeth. Sight-Readings: American Fictions. New York : Random House, c1998. pp. 3-26.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Age of Innoncence -- The Custom of the Country -- The House of Mirth --

  19. In Harrison, Gilbert, ed. The Critic as Artist, New York, Liveright, 1972. pp. 150-154.
    Criticism -- The Age of Innocence

  20. In Hoffman, Frederick J. The Art of Southern Fiction. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, c1967. pp. 51-65.
    Criticism -- Works.

  21. In Howe, Irving. Decline of the New. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970]. pp. 122-136
    Criticism -- Works

  22. In Jessup, Josephine Lurie. The Faith of Our Feminists; a Study in the Novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1965. pp. 14-53.
    Criticism -- Works

  23. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 65-73.
    Criticism -- Works

  24. In Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds, an Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1942]. pp. 73-90.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Age of Innocence -- Ethan Frome

  25. In Kronenberger, Louis. The Polished Surface; Essays in the Literature of Worldliness. New York: Knopf, 1969. pp. 246-270.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The Age of Innocence -- The House of Mirth

  26. In Lawrence, Margaret. The School of Femininity: A Book For and About Women As They Are Interpreted Through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1976. pp. 256-259.
    Criticism -- The Age of Innocence

  27. In Lewis, R. W. B. Literary Reflections. Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1993. pp. 129-153.
    Biography -- Letters

  28. MacComb, Debra Ann. "New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure-Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's 'The Custom of the Country.'" In American Literature . Volume 68, No. 4, December 1996. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press. pp. 765-798.
    Criticism -- The Custom of the Country --

  29. In MacIver, R. M., ed. Great Moral Dilemmas in Literature, Past and Present. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1964, c1956. pp. 37-46.
    Criticism -- Ethan Frome --
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  30. In Martin, Jay Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865-1914. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, [1967]. pp. 263-277.
    Criticism -- Works -- A Backwards Glance -- The Custom of the Country -- The Decoration of Houses

  31. In Maxwell, D. E. S. (Desmond Ernest Stewart). American Fiction; the Intellectual Background. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. pp. 236-264.
    Criticism -- The Age of Innocence --The Custom of the Country -- The House of Mirth

  32. In Meredith, James H. Understanding the Literature of World War I. Westport, CT, 2004. pp.87-93.
    Criticism -- A Son at the Front

  33. In Millgate, Michael. American Social Fiction: James to Cozzens. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. pp. 54-67.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The House of Mirth

  34. In Mizener, Arthur M. Twelve Great American Novels. New York: New American Library, [1967]. pp. 68-86.
    Biography. Criticism -- The Age of Innocence

  35. Moddelmog, William E. "Disowning "Personality": Privacy and Subjectivity in 'The House of Mirth'." In American Literature, V. 70, N. 2, June 1998. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press. pp. 337-364.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth --

  36. In Monroe, N. Elizabeth. The Novel and Society. Port Washington, N. Y., Kennikat Press, 1965. pp. 111-138.
    Criticism -- Works --

  37. In Morgan, H. Wayne (Howard Wayne). Writers in Transition: Seven Americans. New York: Hill and Wang, [1963]. pp. 23-41.
    Biography. Criticism -- Novels

  38. In O'Connor, William Van. Seven Modern American Novelists; an Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1964]. pp. 11-45.
    Biography. Criticism -- Works

  39. In Overton, Grant M. The Women Who Make Our Novels. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. pp. 324-342.
    Biography. Criticism -- Works

  40. In Poirier, Richard. A World Elsewhere: the Place of Style in American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. pp. 208-235.
    Criticism -- Works

  41. In Quinn, Arthur Hobson. American Fiction; an Historical and Critical Survey. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, [c1936]. pp. 550-581.
    Criticism -- Works

  42. In Reynolds, Guy. Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999. pp. 51-58.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Custom of the Country -- Summer -- Touchstone

  43. In Shapiro, Charles, ed. Twelve Original Essays on Great American Novels. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1958. pp. 148-176
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  44. In Showalter, Elaine. Sister's Choice. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. pp. 85-103..

    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  45. In Skillion, Anne Introducing the great American novel . New York : W. Morrow, c1988. pp. 91-110.
    Criticism -- House of Mirth

  46. In Smiley, Jane. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York : Knopf, c2005. pp. 424-427.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  47. In Snell, George D. The Shapers of American Fiction, 1798-1947. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1961. pp. 140-150.
    Criticism --

  48. In Stegner, Wallace Earle, ed. The American Novel: from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. New York: Basic Books, [1965]. pp. 117-132.
    Criticism -- House of Mirth

  49. In Thorp, Willard. American Writing in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, 1960. pp. 19-24.
    Criticism -- Works --

  50. In Trilling, Diana. Claremont Essays. New York, Stein and Day, 1963. pp. 21-40..
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  51. In Tuttleton, James W. The Novel of Manners in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1972]. pp. 122-140.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The House of Mirth -- The Age of Innocence -- Hudson River Bracketed -- The Gods Arrive

  52. In Tuttleton, James W. Vital Signs: Essays on American Literature and Criticism. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. pp. 227-239
    Criticism -- Works

  53. In Updike, John. More Matter. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. pp. 214-230.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Buccaneers

  54. In Van Doren, Carl. The American Novel, 1789-1939 . New York, The Macmillan company, 1940. pp. 273-280.
    Criticism -- Works --

  55. Von Rosk, Nancy. "Spectacular Houses and Pastoral Theaters: Gender, Urbanity and Domesticity in The House of Mirth." In Studies in the Novel, Volume 33, No. 3, pp. 322-350.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  56. In Wegelin, Christof, ed. The American Novel: Criticism and Background Readings. New York, Free Press, 1971. pp. 395-426.
    Criticism -- The House of Mirth

  57. In Wilson, Edmund. The Wound and the Bow; Seven Studies in Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. pp. 195-213.
    Criticism -- Novels

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