The Conspicuous Wasting of Lily Bart

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard

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“…5 5 Ruth Bernard Yeazell explains, “as Veblen frequently observes, leisure is itself a kind of employment, and his chapter on ‘Conspicuous Leisure’ amusingly details some of the ‘quasi‐scholarly or quasi‐artistic accomplishments’ that commonly serve as evidence that one has been engaged in just such an ‘unproductive expenditure of time’” (Yeazell 1992, 716). …”

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Risk and Subversion in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

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2012

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This essay argues that a strong undercurrent runs throughout The House of Mirth, which subtly combines the themes of risk‐taking, gambling, and aesthetic play and thereby exposes the randomness and indeterminacy that the predominant value systems of Lily’s universe attempt to disguise or negate. The presence of risk is felt as a variable whose attributive value or meaning differs widely depending on varying and often contradictory contexts from the economic to the aesthetic, the material to the spiritual, and the individual to the communal.

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