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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"--1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation"”.
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Edith Wharton's treatment of marriage.
… is an examination of the variation of style and setting and the continuity of theme in Edith Wharton's fiction. Her treatment of marriage and divorce is used as the basis for comparison. Several themes are traced through her work and their possible relation to her own life is indicated. The …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… career spanning more than fifty years (1885 to 1937), Edith Wharton portrayed American women weathering a tremendous sea change in society's expectations of them. In the 1960s the unsealing of Wharton's personal papers encouraged scholars to assign new value to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing …
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
<p>The ideal woman of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the "Angel in the House"-a woman who was sweet, shy, and modest. She lived to please the men in her life. She was also the child-woman who was sheltered from the knowledge of the world because it would be too painful and heavy for …