Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162) and index.
Contents:
The politics of space: Newport's built environment in the gilded age -- Edith Wharton as a theorist of space: a study of her earliest homes and influences -- The literary spaces of class and gender: Edith Wharton's early short fiction -- Spaces and sites without limits: the decoration of houses and the Mount -- Full circle: The house of mirth and three Newport narratives.
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