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 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 course of Wharton's lifetime.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gloria C. Erlich is the author of Family Themes and Hawthorne's Fiction (Rutgers, 1984), which won the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award and the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars. She lives and writes in Princeton, New Jersey.

Zusammenfassung

Analyzing Wharton's life and writings, the author demonstrates how interrelated identity systems are reflected in Wharton's work. From sexual repression and a celibate marriage to the discovery of passion in a love affair, Wharton's sexual education embraced a range of experiences and emotions.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gloria C. Erlich, Erlich Gloria C.
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.06.1992
• EAN: 9780520075832
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07583-2
• Seiten: 223
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity