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

• Autore: Erlich Gloria C
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 813/.52; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sexual education of Edith Wharton
• ISBN: 0-520-91171-7; 0-585-26401-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495882903321
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