The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2020
240 pages
978-0-520-91171-0 (ISBN)
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Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution-from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the novelist's life, letters, and fiction, Erlich reveals several interrelated identity systems-the filial, the sexual, and the creative-that evolved together over the course of Wharton's lifetime.
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The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
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06/1992
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University of California Press
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Gloria C. Erlich is the author of Family Themes and Hawthorne's Fiction (Rutgers, 1984), which won the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award and the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars. She lives and writes in Princeton, New Jersey.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: On Double Mothering
- 1. Family Ties
- 2. On the Threshold
- 3. The Passion Experience
- 4. Parental Inscriptions
- 5. Final Adjustments
- Appendix: "Beatrice Palmato
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
