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"'The (American) Muse's Tragedy': Edith Wharton, Henry James, and The Little Lady of the Big House." Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer. Ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Sara S. Hodson. San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 2002. 189-212. Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer "Edith Wharton: Critical Extracts." American Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960. Vol. 3. Women Writers of English and Their Works. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998. American Women Writers    
"Reading (theme)." The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Ed. Gregory Eiselen and Anne Phillips. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. 277-278.

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"Sentimentalism." The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Ed.Gregory Eiselen and Anne Phillips. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. 297-298.

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"'Written with a hard and ruthless purpose': Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction." Middlebrow Moderns. Ed. Meredith Goldsmith and Lisa Botshon. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. 25-44.

 

 “Naturalism,” “Old Rogaum and His Theresa.” “Frank Norris.”The Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. Ed. Keith Newlin. Greenwood Press, 2003.    
"The 'bitter taste' of Naturalism: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox ." Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary Papke. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. 237-259.

 

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 Notes for Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Modern Library, 2002.