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
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Includes bibliographies (p. 346-348) and index
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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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