Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country A Reassessment
- Edited by
- Laura Rattray
- Published: 6 Oct 2015
- DOI: 10.4324/9781315653570
- Print ISBN: 9781851962242
- eBook ISBN: 9781315653570
Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction By Laura Rattray
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1The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly By Susan Goodman
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2When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country By Shafquat Towheed
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3'Don't Cry – It ain't that Kind of a Story': Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908–12 By Bonnie Shannon McMullen
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4Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country By Carol J. Singley
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5Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show By Emily J. Orlando
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6'It's Better to Watch': Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth By Jessica Schubert McCarthy
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7A 'Mist of Opopanax': Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country By Pamela Knights
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8Landscape with the Fall of Undine By Margaret P. Murray
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9Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg By Julie Olin-Ammentorp
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10Men at Work in The Custom of the Country By William Blazek
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11'Lost in Translation': Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country By Hildegard Hoeller
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Back Matter