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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1992.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501279 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911710 0520911717 0585264015 9780585264011 9780520075832 0520075838 |