Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton [electronic resource] : From Silence to Speech /
Chambers, D.author.
This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
Wharton and feminist criticism -- Wharton, women, and authorship at the turn of the century -- Competing discourses and the word in the House of mirth -- Unravelling of story in The reef -- Seduction and language in Summer -- Gender and performance in the Glimpses of the moon.
This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
America—Literatures.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Feminist theory.
North American Literature.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Feminism.