The sexual education of Edith Wharton /

Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution--from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing t...

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Autor principal: Erlich, Gloria C.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501279
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Sumari:Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution--from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the novelist's life, letters, and fiction, Erlich reveals several interrelated identity systems--the filial, the sexual, and the creative--that evolved together over the.
Descripció física:1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index.
ISBN:9780520911710
0520911717
0585264015
9780585264011
9780520075832
0520075838