introduction Chapter One Becoming a New Woman in The Fruit of the Tree Edith Wharton：A New Woman？ Who Were the New Women？ From “True Woman” to “New Woman” in The Fruit of the Tree Chapter Two Narrating Classical Friendship in The House of Mirth The Questions of the Republic of Spirit The Classical Discourse of Friendship and Its Revision The Discourse of Exchange and Friendship American Woman’s Friendship in Disillusion Chapter Three Engaging in the Discourse of Friendship in Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive The Interpretative Circle of Friendship Between the Intellectual Woman and the Artistic Man “A New Woman in a New World” Conclusion Works Cited
