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UNINA9910495882903321 |
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Autore |
Erlich Gloria C |
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Titolo |
The sexual education of Edith Wharton / / Gloria C. Erlich [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-91171-7 |
0-585-26401-5 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2020] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 210 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Soggetti |
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Women authors, American - Sexual behavior |
Femininity in literature |
Women authors, American - Psychology |
Psychoanalysis and literature |
Women in literature |
Sex in literature |
Women and literature - History - 20th century - United States |
Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism - 20th century - United States |
Authors, American - Psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: On Double Mothering -- 1. Family Ties -- 2. On the Threshold -- 3. The Passion Experience -- 4. Parental Inscriptions -- 5. Final Adjustments -- Appendix: "Beatrice Palmato" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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