Love American style
Subtitle: divorce and the American novel, 1881-1976
By: Kimberly A. Freeman.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Divorce in literature.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Married people in literature.; Marriage in literature.; Love in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: Americanizing divorce: the personal is political; title: The "enormous fact" of American life : divorce in William Dean Howells's a modern instance; title: Divorce, the American custom in Edith Wharton's The custom of the country; title: Mary McCarthy's A charmed life : divorcing fiction from fact; title: Divorce me : romance and realism in John Updike's Marry me : a romance; title: Can the circle be broken? : divorce and the future of the American novel.