The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
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The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton

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The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton

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Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution—from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the novelist's life, letters, and fiction, Erlich reveals several interrelated identity systems—the filial, the sexual, and the creative—that evolved together over the course of Wharton's lifetime.
Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution—from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: On Double Mothering
  7. 1 Family Ties
  8. 2 On the Threshold
  9. 3 The Passion Experience
  10. 4 Parental Inscriptions
  11. 5 Final Adjustments
  12. Appendix: “Beatrice Palmato,,
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index