Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on North American women's writing, especially Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin.

• Chapter 1 Text and contexts; Chapter 2 Critical history; Chapter 3 Critical readings; Chapter 3a Edith Thornton, ‘Beyondthe Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart’; Chapter 3b Katherine Joslin, ‘Is Lily Gay?’; Chapter 3c Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan, ‘The House of Mirth: Genred Locations’; Chapter 3d Kathy Fedorko, ‘“;Seeing a Disfigurement”: Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth’; Chapter 3e Pamela Knights, ‘“;Hypertexts” and the City: The House of Mirthat the Millennium’; Chapter 4 Performance/adaptation; Chapter 5 Further reading and web resources;

Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on North American women's writing, especially Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin.

• Chapter 1 Text and contexts; Chapter 2 Critical history; Chapter 3 Critical readings; Chapter 3a Edith Thornton, ‘Beyondthe Page: Visual Literacy and the Interpretation of Lily Bart’; Chapter 3b Katherine Joslin, ‘Is Lily Gay?’; Chapter 3c Janet Beer and Elizabeth Nolan, ‘The House of Mirth: Genred Locations’; Chapter 3d Kathy Fedorko, ‘“;Seeing a Disfigurement”: Reading the Gothic in The House of Mirth’; Chapter 3e Pamela Knights, ‘“;Hypertexts” and the City: The House of Mirthat the Millennium’; Chapter 4 Performance/adaptation; Chapter 5 Further reading and web resources;