Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment: Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920, 1st Edition (Paperback) book cover

Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment

Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920, 1st Edition

By Debra Ann MacComb

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266 pages

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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."

Reviews

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

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 CenturyChapter 4: (Pre)Occupations Worldly and Domestic: Working Wives and the Specter of Divorce, 1910-1920; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Subject Categories

BISAC Subject Codes/Headings:
SOC026000
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General