Female doubling: The other Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's `The House of Mirth'.

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    • Subject Terms:
      HOUSE of Mirth, The (Book : Wharton)
    • Subject Terms:
      WHARTON, Edith, 1862-1937
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the use of revised and often reversed literary doubling to by-pass or subvert the surface message of a text by analyzing the book `The House of Mirth,' by Edith Wharton. Literary doubling; Tableaux vivant; Nineteenth-century use of literary doubling and pairing of opposites; Women writers at the turn of the century; Double consciousness.