American Literature Module 3.7
The House of Mirth
Study Guide: American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3)
Honors Texts
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
Context Resource Links
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
- http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/wharton.htm
- http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_H/house_of_mirth1.asp
The Author’s Life
- http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/bio.htm
- http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm
- http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/edith-wharton-1862-1937-she-wrote-about-the-young-and-innocent-in-a-dishonest-world-105595488/116514.html
Poetry
Robert Frost
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-road-not-taken-by-robert-frost
- https://poets.org/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay
- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/stopping-woods-snowy-evening
Edgar Lee Masters
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/spoon-river-anthology-excerpts
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/edgar-lee-masters-biography/
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Marianne Moore
Audio
Video
- http://www.celtoslavica.de/chiaroscuro/films/housemirth/house_mirth.html
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200720/
Visual Arts
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wharton
- https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-gibson-girl
- https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/hmirthillus.html
- https://househistree.com/houses/pavillon-colombe
Music
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200720/soundtrack
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/house-of-mirth-music-by-haydn-borodin-and-mozart
Historic Context
- https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/gilded-age
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-gilded/
- http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_subj.html
Places to Go
- http://www.edithwharton.org/
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/home-of-edith-wharton-the-mount
- https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/annotations/pavillion-colombe
- https://househistree.com/houses/pavillon-colombe
- http://www.terresdecrivains.com/Edith-WHARTON
Category link for browsing: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/category/e3-resources
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