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From tea to chloral: raising the dead Lily Bart.(character in woman author Edith Wharton's book 'The House of Mirth')

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19981222
Author:Gerard, Bonnie Lynn

Woman author Edith Wharton's book 'The House of Mirth' clearly depicts New York, NY's turn-of-the-century leisure class society figuratively and literally as a consuming society. Critics have noted that the nation's leisure class during that period displayed its considerable wealth by engaging in the conspicuous consumption of material goods. Wharton's notion of consuming materialists is explored in a scrutiny of a woman character in the book named Lily Barton.

"Gad! what a study might be made of the tyranny of the stomach - " - The House of Mirth (309)

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