
Edith Wharton
Katherine Joslin(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 24. May 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 164 pages
978-0-333-40730-1 (ISBN)
Description
19th century American writers often differ by gender in the stories they tell about the American experience. The male quest most often depicts the hero's journey away from the domestic world of women; the female quest situates the heroine within the domestic world of marriage and motherhood. This study considers Edith Wharton's fiction in opposition to both the male pastoral romance and the female domestic novel. Like other American women writers, Wharton places her protagonists within the social, domestic world. Unlike male romancers who celebrate escape from society, she depicts the inevitable bond or covenant between the individual and the group. Wharton differs, however, from the female novelists who celebrate domesticity by emphasizing the bonds or restrictions the group imposes on the individual.
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Series
Edition
1991
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-40730-1 (9780333407301)
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Katherine Joslin
Edith Wharton
Book
05/1991
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Katherine Joslin
Content
Acknowledgements.- Editor's Preface.- Edith Wharton's Life.- Edith Wharton's Fiction.- The House of Mirth and the Question of Women.- The Custom of the Country and the Atlantic's Call.- The Age of Innocence and the Bohemian Peril.- The Mother's Recompense: Spectral Desire Edith Wharton and the Critics.- Notes.- Bibliography.