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Tales of liberation, strategies of containment : divorce and the representation of womanhood in American fiction, 1880-1920 / Debra Ann MacComb.
Van Pelt Library PS374.D55 M33 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacComb, Debra Ann.
- Series:
- Garland studies in American popular history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Divorce in literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Married women in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Plotting Marriage and Divorce: The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Background 3
- Chapter 2 From Wedlock to Marriage: Revising Contracts and Resisting Divorce in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl 53
- Chapter 3 New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure Class Marriage Market In Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country 121
- Chapter 4 (Pre)Occupations Worldly and Domestic: Working Wives and the Specter of Divorce, 1910-1920 171.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 081533804X
- OCLC:
- 43540837
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