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Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country: A Selected Bibliography

Ammons, Elizabeth. "The Business of Marriage in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." Criticism 16 (1974): 326-38.

Ammons, Elizabeth. Edith Wharton's Argument with America. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1980.

Asya, Ferda. "Resolutions of Guilt: Cultural Values Reconsidered in Custom of the Country and the Age of Innocence." Edith Wharton Review 14.2 (1997): 15-20.

Balestra, Gianfranca. "La Citta Geroglifica Di Edith Wharton." La Citta Delle Donne: Immaginario Urbano E Letteratura Del Novecento. Ed. Oriana Palusci. Turin, Italy: Tirrenia, 1992. 87-100. 

Bell, Millicent. Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Story of Their Friendship. New York: Braziller, 1965. PS3545.H16Z59

Benstock, Shari. No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton.

Bentley, Nancy.  The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Boydston, Jeanne. "'Grave endearing traditions': Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel." Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Eds. Alice Kessler-Harris and William McBrien. Contribs. in Women's Studies. Series No: 86. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 31-40.

Bratton, Daniel Lance. "Conspicuous Consumption and Conspicuous Leisure in the Novels of Edith Wharton." Dissertation Abstracts International 44.9 (1984): 2765A.

Bruni, John. "Becoming American: Evolution and Performance in Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country." Intertexts 9.1 (2005): 43-59.

Burns, Karin Garlepp. "The Paradox of Objectivity in the Realist Fiction of Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin." JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1 (1999): 27-61.

Caserio, Robert L. "Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Public Commentary." Western Humanities Review 40.3 (1986): 189-208.

Collins, Alexandra. "The Noyade of Marriage in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." English Studies in Canada 9.2 (1983): 197-212.

DuBow, Wendy M. "The Businesswoman in Edith Wharton." Edith Wharton Review 8.2 (1991): 11-18.

Dupree, Ellen. "Jamming the Machinery: Minesis in The Custom of the Country." American Literary Realism 22.2 (1990): 5-16.

Dutoit, Thomas. A Rose, a Ghost, in Edith Wharton: Reading Proserpinean Poetics in the Custom of the Country. Paris, France : Editions du Temps, 2000.

Edmonds, Mary K. "Customs, Costumes, and Customers in The Custom of the Country." American Literary Realism 28.3 (1996): 1-18.

Friedl, Bettina. "Die Inszenierung Im Spiegel: Aspekte Pikarischen Erzahlens Bei Theodore Dreiser Und Edith Wharton." Frauen Und Frauendarstellung in Der Englischen Und Amerikanischen Literatur. Ed. Therese Fischer-Seidel. Tubinger Beitrage Zur Anglistik. Tubingen: Narr, 1991. 217-33. 

Furst, Lilian R. "'Hunting for the Real': Responses to Art in Edith Wharton's Custom of the Country." Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 260-75.

Gair, Christopher. "The Crumbling Structure of 'Appearances': Representation and Authenticity in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 43.2 (1997): 349-73.

Gair, Christopher. "The Crumbling Structure of 'Appearance': Representation and Authenticity in the House of Mirth and the Custom of the Country." Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth. Ed. Carol J. Singley. Casebooks in Criticism (Ccf): Oxford UP, Oxford, England Pagination: 271-97, 2003. 337.

Gibson, Mary Ellis. "Edith Wharton and the Ethnography of Old New York." Studies in American Fiction 13.1 (1985): 57-69.

Gomez Reus, Teresa. "The Parody of Sexual Differentiation in Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 21 (1990): 131-39.

Goodwyn, Janet Beer. Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.PS3545.H16Z655 1990

Hays, Peter L. "Undine Is Us: Wharton's Attack on American Greed." Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis {Paris, France}47.1 (1994 Jan-Mar): 22-31

Howe, Irving, ed. Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. PS3545.H16Z68

Joslin, Katherine. Edith Wharton. New York: Macmillan, 1991.PS3545.H16Z685 1991

Kassanoff, Jennie A. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race. Cambridge, England : Cambridge UP, 2004.

Klimasmith, Betsy. "The 'Hotel Spirit': Modernity and the Urban Home in Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Short Fiction." Edith Wharton Review 18.2 (2002): 25-35.

Killoran, Helen. Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.PS3545.H16Z687 1996

Koprince, Susan. "Edith Wharton's Hotels." Massachusetts Studies in English 10.1 (1985): 12-23.

Kowaleski-Wallace, Beth. "The Reader as Misogynist in the Custom of the Country." Modern Language Studies 21.1 (1991): 45-53.

Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.PS3545.H16Z696

MacComb, Debra Ann. "New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure-Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." American Literature 68.4 (1996): 765-97.

MacNaughton, William R. "The Artist as Moralist: Edith Wharton's Revisions to the Last Chapter of the Custom of the Country." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 37.1 (2001): 51-64.

McDowell, Margaret B. "Viewing the Custom of Her Country: Edith Wharton's Feminism." Contemporary Literature 15 (1974): 521-38.

McHaney, Thomas L. "Fouque's Undine and Edith Wharton's Custom of the Country." Revue de Litterature Comparee 45 (1971): 180-86.

Morrow, Nancy. "Games and Conflict in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." American Literary Realism 17.1 (1984): 32-39.

Nevius, Blake. Edith Wharton: A Study of Her Fiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 1953. PS3545.H16Z75

Olin-Ammentorp, Julie, and Ann Ryan. "Undine Spragg and the Transcendental I." Edith Wharton Review 17.1 (2001): 1.

Patterson, Martha H. "Incorporating the New Woman in Wharton's The Custom of the Country." Studies in American Fiction 26.2 (1998): 213-36.

Peel, Robin. Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction before World War I. Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005.

Pierce, Rosemary Erickson. "Clare Van Degen in The Custom of the Country." Studies in American Fiction 17.1 (1989): 107-110.

Preston, Claire. "Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel." Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen L. Kilcup. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1999. 184-201. 

Preston, Claire. "Creative Finance: Making Money and Making Fiction in Edith Wharton's the Custom of the Country." Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 10 (2000): 57-65.

Quay, Sara Elisabeth. "Edith Wharton's Narrative of Inheritance." American Literary Realism 29.3 (1997): 26-48.

Sapora, Carol Baker. "Undine Spragg, the Mirror and the Lamp in the Custom of the Country." Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Gary Totten. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism (Salrn): U of Alabama P, Tuscaloosa, AL Pagination: 265-86, 2007. x, 315.

Sassoubre, Ticien Marie. "Property and Identity in the Custom of the Country." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 49.4 (2003): 687-.

Shaffer-Koros, Carole M. "Edgar Allan Poe and Edith Wharton: The Case of Mrs. Mowatt." Edith Wharton Review 17.1 (2001): 12-16.

Showalter, Elaine. "Spragg: The Art of the Deal." The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Ed. Millicent Bell. Cambridge Companions to Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 87-97.

Singley, Carol. Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1995.

Sweeney, Gerard M. "The Wealth of Abner Spragg; An Inside Narrative." South Atlantic Review 63.4 (1998): 48-57.

Tichi, Cecelia. "Emerson, Darwin, and the Custom of the Country." A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. Ed. Carol J. Singley. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. 89-11

Tintner, Adeline R. "A Source from Roderick Hudson for the Title of The Custom of the Country." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 1 (1977): Item 34.

Tintner, Adeline R. "Henry James's 'Julia Bride': A Source for Chapter Nine in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 9.3 (1985): Item 16.

Ullmo, Anne. "The Custom of the Country: Entre Romantisme Et Carnaval." Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 10 (2000): 67-77.

Viti-Finzi, Penelope. Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction. London: Pinter, 1991. PS3545.H16Z88 1990b

Voloshin, Beverly R. "Exchange in Wharton's The Custom of the Country." Pacific Coast Philology 22.1-2 (1987): 98-104.

Wagner, Linda W. "A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust." Edith Wharton Newsletter 3.1 (1986): 1, 8.

Waid, Candace. Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Wegener, Frederick, ed. Edith Wharton: Uncollected Critical Writings. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1996. PS121.W43 1996

Wegener, Frederick. "'Rabid Imperialist': Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 72.4 (2000): 783-812.

Werlock, Abby. "The Custom of the Country: George Sand's Indiana and Edith Wharton's Indiana/Undine." Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (2002): 1-7.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. A Feast of Words.

Wolstenholme, Susan.  "Edith Wharton's Gibson Girl: The Virgin, the Undine, and the Dynamo." American Literary Realism 18.1-2 (1985): 92-106.

Yoshino, Narumi. "Abner to Elmer: Eternal Daughterhood as Undine's Marriage Strategy in the Custom of the Country." Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan 3 (2004): 39-56.

Yount, Janet Aikens. "Strange Bedfellows: Textual Transference among Samuel Richardson, Edith Wharton, and T. S. Eliot in the Modernist Sexology Movement." Eighteenth-Century Life 31.3 (2007): 29-59.