The Sexual Education of Edith WhartonUniversity of California Press, 2023 M12 22 - 223 páginas 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. 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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... surrogate ( sometimes a family member , often an unmar- ried aunt ) , and the child's level of reactivity to this aspect of its environment . In the introduction that follows I adduce testimony about the significance of multiple ...
... surrogate ( sometimes a family member , often an unmar- ried aunt ) , and the child's level of reactivity to this aspect of its environment . In the introduction that follows I adduce testimony about the significance of multiple ...
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... surrogate nurturance is a negative practice with predictable or measurable consequences , but merely that it is likely to make some difference in the child's inner world . Rather than try to judge whether the difference is detrimental ...
... surrogate nurturance is a negative practice with predictable or measurable consequences , but merely that it is likely to make some difference in the child's inner world . Rather than try to judge whether the difference is detrimental ...
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... surrogate care is good and the mother would prefer to be doing something else . Today even mothers who long to tend their own infants are being driven into the work force in unprecedented numbers by economic pressures , earnestly hoping ...
... surrogate care is good and the mother would prefer to be doing something else . Today even mothers who long to tend their own infants are being driven into the work force in unprecedented numbers by economic pressures , earnestly hoping ...
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... surrogate is probably better for a child than a deficient mother , substitution of the first attachment figure with another ( however capable and loving ) initiates an obscure sense of deprivation , loss , and anger . A delicate link is ...
... surrogate is probably better for a child than a deficient mother , substitution of the first attachment figure with another ( however capable and loving ) initiates an obscure sense of deprivation , loss , and anger . A delicate link is ...
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... surrogate mothering is synonymous with loss " and usually results in problems with intimacy : Initially , introduction of a surrogate into the family may cause a severe disruption of the infant's relationship with his own mother ; this ...
... surrogate mothering is synonymous with loss " and usually results in problems with intimacy : Initially , introduction of a surrogate into the family may cause a severe disruption of the infant's relationship with his own mother ; this ...
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Family Ties | 16 |
On the Threshold | 50 |
The Passion Experience | 75 |
Parental Inscriptions | 116 |
Final Adjustments | 148 |
Beatrice Palmato | 171 |
Notes | 177 |
Bibliography | 191 |
Acknowledgments | 197 |
Index | 199 |
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Página 68 - ... any deeper bearing than the people composing such a society could guess ? The answer was that a frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
Página 63 - Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things," she moaned; and Gerty silently slipped an arm under her, pillowing her head in its hollow as a mother makes a nest for a tossing child. In the warm hollow Lily lay still and her breathing grew low and regular. Her hand still clung to...
Página 65 - It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense of deeper impoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance.
Página 66 - Nettie Struther's child was lying on her arm : she felt the pressure of its little head against her shoulder. She did not know how it had come there, but she felt no great surprise at the fact, only a gentle penetrating thrill of warmth and pleasure.
Página 20 - Lily, if it's any comfort, that for twelve years I seldom knew what it was to be, for more than an hour or two of the twenty four, without an intense feeling of nausea, & such unutterable fatigue that when I got up I was always more tired than when I lay down.
Página 56 - That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.
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Página 121 - I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been to me without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry and thirsty, and he fed them till our last hour together.
Página 66 - And as she looked back she saw that there had never been a time when she had had any real relation to life. Her parents too had been rootless, blown hither and thither on every wind of fashion, without any personal existence to shelter them from its shifting gusts. She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer to her than another: there was no centre of early pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself...
Página 75 - I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.