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Introduction : a critical history / Millicent Bell
The social subject in The age of innocence / Pamela Knights
Edith Wharton and the science of manners / Nancy Bentley
Edith Wharton and race / Elizabeth Ammons
The custom of the country : Spragg and the art of the deal / Elaine Showalter
The female conscience in Wharton's shorter fiction / Gloria C. Erlich
Law, language, and ritual in Summer / Rhonda Skillern
The house of mirth : the bachelor and the baby / Maureen Howard
The fruit of the tree : Justine and the perils of abstract idealism / James W. Tuttleton
The valley of decision : Edith Wharton's Italian mask / William L. Vance
Edith Wharton's Valley of decision : a rediscovered contemporary critique / Vernon Lee.
The social subject in The age of innocence / Pamela Knights
Edith Wharton and the science of manners / Nancy Bentley
Edith Wharton and race / Elizabeth Ammons
The custom of the country : Spragg and the art of the deal / Elaine Showalter
The female conscience in Wharton's shorter fiction / Gloria C. Erlich
Law, language, and ritual in Summer / Rhonda Skillern
The house of mirth : the bachelor and the baby / Maureen Howard
The fruit of the tree : Justine and the perils of abstract idealism / James W. Tuttleton
The valley of decision : Edith Wharton's Italian mask / William L. Vance
Edith Wharton's Valley of decision : a rediscovered contemporary critique / Vernon Lee.