Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment: Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920

by Debra Ann MacComb

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138883444
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/08/2015
Series:	Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MacComb, Debra Ann

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

Editorial Reviews

"...this interesting study will augment both undergraduate and advanced collections supporting women's studies and literature." — Choice

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