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Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment: Divorce of the Representation of
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Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment
by Debra Ann MacComb
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
FORMAT
PaperbackLANGUAGE
EnglishCONDITION
Brand New
Publisher Description
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."
Table of Contents
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
Review
"...this interesting study will augment both undergraduate and advanced collections supporting women's studies and literature." -- Choice
Review Quote
"...this interesting study will augment both undergraduate and advanced collections supporting women's studies and literature." -- Choice
Details
ISBN1138883441Author Debra Ann MacCombPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdISBN-10 1138883441ISBN-13 9781138883444Format PaperbackImprint RoutledgePlace of Publication LondonCountry of Publication United KingdomShort Title TALES OF LIBERATION STRATEGIESLanguage EnglishMedia BookYear 2015Illustrations black & white illustrationsSeries Studies in American Popular History and CulturePublication Date 2015-06-08AU Release Date 2015-06-08NZ Release Date 2015-06-08UK Release Date 2015-06-08Subtitle Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920Pages 266Alternative 9780815338048DEWEY 813.4093543Audience Tertiary & Higher Education
