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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495882903321

Autore

Erlich Gloria C

Titolo

The sexual education of Edith Wharton / / Gloria C. Erlich [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992

ISBN

0-520-91171-7

0-585-26401-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 210 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

813/.52

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Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.