House of Mirth Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

THWT-TLWT Summer 2006 Workshops

Project on Poverty and Social Class in The House of Mirth from Lucia Knowles's class at Assumption College; background information, links, and ideas.

preliminary in-class assignments


Edith Wharton: Classroom Issues and Strategies

Teaching Resources from CSPAN's summer 2001 program on Wharton.  This site includes a free streaming video version of the 2 1/2 hour program as well as selected clips

Discussion Questions

 

select full-text critical essays in Infotrac:

Totten, Gary. "The Art and Architecture of the Self: Designing the "I"-Witness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.(Critical Essay)." College Literature 27.3 (Fall 2000): 71. Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

Pizer, Donald. "The naturalism of Edith Wharton's 'House of Mirth.'." Twentieth Century Literature 41.n2 (Summer 1995): 241(8). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

Clubbe, John. "Interiors and the interior life in Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth.'." Studies in the Novel 28.n4 (Winter 1996): 543(22). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

Von Rosk, Nancy. "Spectacular homes and pastoral theaters: gender, urbanity and domesticity in the house of mirth.(Critical Essay)." Studies in the Novel 33.3 (Fall 2001): 322(29). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

Harrison-Kahan, Lori. ""Queer myself for good and all": The House of Mirth and the fictions of Lily's whiteness.(Critical Essay)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 21.1 (Jan 2004): 34(16). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

Manheim, Daniel. "Wharton's The House of Mirth.(Critical Essay)." The Explicator 60.2 (Wntr 2002): 81(3). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Noble and Greenough School. 19 September 2005 

misc.
Illustrations from the first edition of The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Selected Bibliography

The Mount

Edith Wharton multiple-choice quiz

 


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