Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Invaders and Aborigines: playing Indian in the Land of Letters
- 2 “The real Lily Bart”: staging race in The House of Mirth
- 3 “A close corporation”: the body and the machine in The Fruit of the Tree
- 4 The Age of Experience: pragmatism, the Titanic and The Reef
- 5 Charity begins at home: Summer and the erotic tourist
- 6 Coda: The Age of Innocence and the Cesnola controversy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Invaders and Aborigines: playing Indian in the Land of Letters
- 2 “The real Lily Bart”: staging race in The House of Mirth
- 3 “A close corporation”: the body and the machine in The Fruit of the Tree
- 4 The Age of Experience: pragmatism, the Titanic and The Reef
- 5 Charity begins at home: Summer and the erotic tourist
- 6 Coda: The Age of Innocence and the Cesnola controversy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race , pp. 166 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004