Love American Style
Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 August 2003
- ISBN 9780415967839
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, this study traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel.
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A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love American Style traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. This book draws upon popular, sociological, political and architectural history to illustrate how divorce reflects conflicting ideologies and notions of American identity. Focusing primarily on work by William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy and John Updike, Kimberly Freeman delineates a system of tropes particular to divorce in American novels, such as the association of divorce with the West and modernity, the dismantling of the home, and the disruption of the boundary between the public and the private. These tropes suggest a literary tradition of love, marriage and divorce that is central to twentieth century American fiction. Offering an explanation for both the treatment of divorce in the American novel as well as its predominance in American culture, this book should appeal to scholars of American literature and popular culture, or anyone interested in how divorce has become so 'American'.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1 CHAPTER ONE Americanizing Divorce; Chapter 2 CHAPTER TWO The “Enormous Fact” of American Life; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE Divorce, the American Custom, in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR Mary McCarthy's A Charmed Life; Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE Divorce Me Romance and Realism in John; CONCLUSION Can the Circle Be Broken? Divorce and the Future of the American Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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