Edith Wharton
Subtitle: sex, satire, and the older woman
By: Avril Horner, Janet Beer
Contributors: Beer, Janet, 1956-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781403941268
Subjects: Sex in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Older women in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Political and social views; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Modernism (Literature); Women and literature; American Satire; History
Other titles: Sex, satire, and the older woman
Description: vi, 207 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mother's recompense; title: Twilight sleep; title: The children; title: Hudson River bracketed; title: The gods arrive; title: The buccaneers; title: Conclusion.