Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Av Debra Ann MacComb, Debra Ann Maccomb

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This book examines six Progressive Age novels of marital discord which specifically focus upon narratives of divorced and divorcing women within the context of their multivalent social and economic value on the "Marriage market."

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Utgivningsdatum2000-05-17
Mått138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt385 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in American Popular History and Culture
Antal sidor252
FörlagTaylor & Francis Inc
ISBN9780815338048

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List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Plotting Marriage and Divorce: The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Background; Chapter 2: From Wedlock to Marriage: Revising Contracts and Resisting Divorce in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl ; Chapter 3: New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Century Chapter 4: (Pre)Occupations Worldly and Domestic: Working Wives and the Specter of Divorce, 1910-1920; Afterword; Bibliography; Index