Love American Style
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A01=Kimberly Freeman
American Literary History
Author_Kimberly Freeman
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Charmed Life
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Divorce Legislation
Divorce Rate
Enormous Fact
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Free Women
Ho Wells
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Imaginary Cake
King George III
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Martha's Death
Martha’s Death
Mine
Modern Instance
Monocular Vision
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Pristine
Ralph Marvell
Real Plums
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Republican Motherhood
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Rising Divorce Rate
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415861380
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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'.
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of the District of Columbia, Kimberly Freeman has published articles in A/B:Auto/Biography and American Literary Realism. She has also contributed to the Reader's Guide to Gay and LesbianStudies and A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. She received her Ph.D. from the Univeristy of Connecticut.
