Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton

by Mary E. Papke

Book Overview

While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and several of their shorter works. Unlike comparable writers of their time, theirs was a nonpolemical but nonetheless political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313268770
• ISBN13: 9780313268779
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"