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1. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

   A Routledge Study Guide

   By Janet Beer, Pamela Knights, Elizabeth Nolan

   Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

   Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by...

   Published July 24th 2007 by Routledge
2. House Of Mirth

   By Janet Beer

   Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

   Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by...

   Published July 24th 2007 by Routledge
3. Kate Chopin's The Awakening

   A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

   Edited by Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan

   Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

   Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
4. American Feminism

   Key Source Documents, 1848-1920

   Edited by Janet Beer, Katherine Joslin, Anne Trudgill

   Series: History of Feminism

   This anthology publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that are currently only available in extract form or in archives.This set spans from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women's suffrage in 1920, and includes works...

   Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge