Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith WhartonUniversity of Alabama Press, 30 juin 1995 - 224 pages An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction |
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... give the eerie sense that one is entering a state of mind . The narrator who guides the reader into the villa that has been vacant for two hundred years is himself guided by an old man who tells the story of the Duchess told to him by ...
... gives him the option of making his fortune rather than having to marry for it or wait to inherit it , without risking his chance of eventually buying his way into society . In the nexus of manners and Gothic , Rosedale both deconstructs ...
... give themselves only to harmonious activities " ( 72 ) . Ned , in particular , in- tends to have a " Benedictine regularity of life , " driven by " recurrences of habit , ” a protected life much like the one the Hermit lives , the one ...
Table des matières
Fearing the Feminine | 22 |
Confronting the Limits of Reason | 48 |
Reclaiming the Feminine | 69 |
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