This book examines six Progressive Age novels of marital discord which specifically focus upon narratives of divorced and divorcing women within the context of their multivalent social and economic value on the "Marriage market."
This book examines six Progressive Age novels of marital discord which specifically focus upon narratives of divorced and divorcing women within the context of their multivalent social and economic value on the "Marriage market."
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Plotting Marriage and Divorce: The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Background Chapter 2: From Wedlock to Marriage: Revising Contracts and Resisting Divorce in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl Chapter 3: New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Century Chapter 4: (Pre)Occupations Worldly and Domestic: Working Wives and the Specter of Divorce, 1910-1920 Afterword Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Plotting Marriage and Divorce: The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Background Chapter 2: From Wedlock to Marriage: Revising Contracts and Resisting Divorce in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl Chapter 3: New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Century Chapter 4: (Pre)Occupations Worldly and Domestic: Working Wives and the Specter of Divorce, 1910-1920 Afterword Bibliography Index
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