Edith Wharton's prisoners of shame : a new perspective on her neglected fiction
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Edith Wharton's prisoners of shame : a new perspective on her neglected fiction
Macmillan, c1991
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographies (p. 346-348) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study draws on recent discoveries in the psychology of emotion, most notably Dr Silvan Tomkins' affect theory, in an attempt to examine Wharton's fiction from a fresh angle.
Table of Contents
- Edith Wharton's touchstone
- flights from shame
- divided by shame
- shameful relations
- the war fiction
- writers and artists
- Wharton's classics. Appendix: discovering Edith Wharton at Pavillon Colombe.
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