Debra Ann Maccomb

Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781138883444
• ISBN-10: 1138883441
• Artikelnr.: 42795043

Autorenporträt

MacComb, Debra Ann

Inhaltsangabe

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