Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-88344-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Reihe: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maccomb, Debra Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

MacComb, Debra Ann