Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edith Wharton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Custom of the Country
Appendix A: Edith Wharton’s Outline and Notes for The Custom of the Country
- “Undine chronology”
- “Final version”
- Additional Notes
Appendix B: Edith Wharton’s Correspondence about The Custom of the Country
- To Morton Fullerton (15 May 1911)
- To Bernard Berenson (16 May 1911)
- To Bernard Berenson (6 August 1911)
- To Charles Scribner (27 November 1911)
- To Bernard Berenson (2 August 1913)
Appendix C: From Edith Wharton’s Autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934)
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews
- Nation (15 May 1913)
- New York Times Review of Books (19 October 1913)
- Independent (13 November 1913)
- Athenaeum (15 November 1913)
- Bookman (December 1913)
- Times Literary Supplement (2 April 1914)
- Forum (November 1915)
Appendix E: Women and Marriage
- From Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Undine (1811)
- From Robert Grant, “The Art of Living, IX: The Case of Woman” (1895)
- From Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination (1896)
- Letter from Edith Wharton to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909)
- From Emma Goldman, “The Traffic in Women” (1910)
Appendix F: Competition and Consumerism
- From Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859)
- From Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- From George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)
- From Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)
Appendix G: Aestheticism
- From Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
- From Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination (1896)
- From Henry James, The American Scene (1907)
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