Wisam Abughosh Chaleila is Assistant Professor and Head of the English Department at Al-Qasemi College of Education in Israel. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and German language and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, she obtained a Joint Ph.D. degree in English and American literature from the University of Haifa in Israel and KU Leuven in Belgium. She was also enrolled in a postdoctoral program in KU Leuven. Chaleila specializes in literature and her teaching fields include Anglo-American literature and poetry, multi-ethnic literature, English teaching, and academic writing. Her research spans teaching approaches, critical theory, literary theory, early and modern literatures, poetic justice and law, American history, ethnic identity, Darwinism, and Marxism.

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• IntroductionI BackgroundII When a House is Not a Home: Materialism, Nostalgia, and DeathIII Racist, Xenophobic, and Materialist 1920s America IV Collectiveness, Doubleness, and ImitationV The House of Mirth and the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties Conclusion

Wisam Abughosh Chaleila is Assistant Professor and Head of the English Department at Al-Qasemi College of Education in Israel. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and German language and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, she obtained a Joint Ph.D. degree in English and American literature from the University of Haifa in Israel and KU Leuven in Belgium. She was also enrolled in a postdoctoral program in KU Leuven. Chaleila specializes in literature and her teaching fields include Anglo-American literature and poetry, multi-ethnic literature, English teaching, and academic writing. Her research spans teaching approaches, critical theory, literary theory, early and modern literatures, poetic justice and law, American history, ethnic identity, Darwinism, and Marxism.

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• IntroductionI BackgroundII When a House is Not a Home: Materialism, Nostalgia, and DeathIII Racist, Xenophobic, and Materialist 1920s America IV Collectiveness, Doubleness, and ImitationV The House of Mirth and the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties Conclusion

Wisam Abughosh Chaleila is Assistant Professor and Head of the English Department at Al-Qasemi College of Education in Israel. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and German language and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, she obtained a Joint Ph.D. degree in English and American literature from the University of Haifa in Israel and KU Leuven in Belgium. She was also enrolled in a postdoctoral program in KU Leuven. Chaleila specializes in literature and her teaching fields include Anglo-American literature and poetry, multi-ethnic literature, English teaching, and academic writing. Her research spans teaching approaches, critical theory, literary theory, early and modern literatures, poetic justice and law, American history, ethnic identity, Darwinism, and Marxism.

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• IntroductionI BackgroundII When a House is Not a Home: Materialism, Nostalgia, and DeathIII Racist, Xenophobic, and Materialist 1920s America IV Collectiveness, Doubleness, and ImitationV The House of Mirth and the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties Conclusion