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Delicate Pursuit : Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued ""discretion"", the key concept of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levine, Jessica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Studies in major literary authors.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a DELICATE PURSUIT; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Age of Discretion; Part One: Censorship/Self-Censorship in James and Wharton; Chapter 1: Early James: Victorian Values, French Influences; Chapter 2: ""The Old Maid"" in the 1920s Marketplace; Part Two: French Classicism and the Discreet Imagination; Chapter 3: ""Madame de Mauves"" as James's La Princesse de Clèves; Chapter 4: Classical Heroines and Voyeurism in The Reef; Part Three: Displacements of the Adultery Plot; Chapter 5: Handling the ""Adulterine Element"" in The Ambassadors. 
505 8 |a Chapter 6: The Age of Innocence and the European Novel of AdulteryEpilogue: The End of the Age of Discretion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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