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Title Edith Wharton's The custom of the country : a reassessment / edited by Laura Rattray
Published London : Pickering & Chatto, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages)
Series Gender and genre ; no. 3
Gender and genre ; no. 3.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Editorial note -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1. The custom of the country -- 2. When the reading had to stop -- 3. 'Don't cry -- it ain't that kind of a story ' -- 4. Worst parents ever -- 5. Crude ascending the staircase -- 6. 'It's better to watch ' -- 7. A 'Mist of opopanax ' -- 8. Landscape with the fall of Undine -- 9. Girls from the Provinces -- 10. Men at work in The custom of the country -- 11. 'Lost in translation ' -- Notes -- Index
Summary Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from the UK, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-192) and index
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Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Custom of the country
American literature -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Form Electronic book
Author Rattray, Laura.
ISBN 9781851961740
1851961747
9781315653570
1315653575