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Cover of Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country A Reassessment

  • Published: 6 Oct 2015
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315653570
  • Print ISBN: 9781851962242
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315653570

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Laura Rattray
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    The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly By Susan Goodman
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    When 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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    '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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    Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country By Carol J. Singley
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    Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show By Emily J. Orlando
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    '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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    A 'Mist of Opopanax': Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country By Pamela Knights
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    Landscape with the Fall of Undine By Margaret P. Murray
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    Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's Thea Kronborg By Julie Olin-Ammentorp
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    Men at Work in The Custom of the Country By William Blazek
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    'Lost in Translation': Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country By Hildegard Hoeller
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    Back Matter