Edith Whartons Social Register Fictions And Contexts

List Of Abbreviations List Of Illustrations Preface With Acknowledgements Part One: Tribes The Force Of Negation The Deaf And Dumb Asylum Boundaries And Bounders Men At Work Image Of Snow: Whartonian Womanhood Libraries And Studies: Where Real Things Happen To Men Part Two: Outcasts Whartons Social Darwinism Maps Of Exclusion Rituals Of Casting Out Reconditioned Malefactors Part Three: Buccaneers Product Placement Buccaneers Exploit And Industry: The Elmer Epic The Steep Of Disenchantment 'beyond' Epic Effrontery The Bareness Of A Small Half-lit Place The Firebird And The Watersprite Part Four: Expatriates The Lesson Of The Master: James And Wharton Outre-mer Home Thoughts From Abroad: America And Americanity Plunder: Buccaneers Go To Europe When They Die 'did You Ever See Anything So French?': Assimilators Children Of Flanders: How The War Made Europe A Real Place Bibliography Index