Edith Wharton's Social Register: Fictions and Contexts (Hardcover, 2000)

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface with Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRIBES The Force of Negation The Deaf and Dumb Asylum Boundaries and Bounders Men at Work Image of Snow: Whartonian Womanhood Libraries and Studies: Where Real Things Happen to Men PART TWO: OUTCASTS Wharton's Social Darwinism Maps of Exclusion Rituals of Casting Out Reconditioned Malefactors PART THREE: BUCCANEERS Product Placement Buccaneers Exploit and Industry: the Elmer Epic The Steep of Disenchantment 'Beyond' Epic Effrontery The Bareness of a Small Half-lit Place The Firebird and the Watersprite PART FOUR: EXPATRIATES The Lesson of the Master: James and Wharton outre-mer Home Thoughts from Abroad: America and Americanity Plunder: Buccaneers go to Europe When They Die 'Did You Ever See Anything So French?': Assimilators Children of Flanders: How the War Made Europe a Real Place Bibliography Index