Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of the District of Columbia, Kimberly Freeman has published articles in A/B:Auto/Biography and American Literary Realism. She has also contributed to the Reader's Guide to Gay and LesbianStudies and A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. She received her Ph.D. from the Univeristy of Connecticut.
Chapter 1 CHAPTER ONE Americanizing Divorce
Chapter 2 CHAPTER TWO The "Enormous Fact" of American Life
Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE Divorce, the American Custom, in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR Mary McCarthy's A Charmed Life
Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE Divorce Me Romance and Realism in John
CONCLUSION Can the Circle Be Broken? Divorce and the Future of the American Novel
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