This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forcesworking against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century. INDICE: Introduction - Wharton and Feminist Criticism - Wharton, Women, and Authorship at the Turn of the Century - Competing Discourses and the Word inThe House of Mirth - The Unraveling of Story in The Reef - Seduction and Language in Summer - Gender and Performance in The Glimpses of the Moon - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61765-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 25/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés