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Critical Essay

The collapse of the American upper-class collective identity: Capitalism and the nouveaux riches in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

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Article: 1594515 | Received 30 Sep 2018, Accepted 04 Mar 2019, Published online: 25 Apr 2019

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