Getting into the house of mirth

The text presents an analysis of the novel The House of Mirth, by the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing not only on the issue of gender, which has predominated among critics of the novel, but also on the way the writer elaborates a critique of the precepts of the period through the use of word...

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Autor: Wasserman, Renata
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Ilha do Desterro
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/7461
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7461
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:The text presents an analysis of the novel The House of Mirth, by the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing not only on the issue of gender, which has predominated among critics of the novel, but also on the way the writer elaborates a critique of the precepts of the period through the use of words that refer to business and commerce, thus mirroring the world view of the American society of the nineteenth-century.