Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton by Kath... - 9780817359133

Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith WhartonAuthor(s): Kathy A. Fedorko\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359133, 978-0817359133\nSynopsis\nAn investigation into Wharton's extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton is an innovative study that provides fresh insights into Wharton's male characters while at the same time showing how Wharton's imagining of a fe/male self evolves throughout her career. Using feminist archetypal theory and theory of the female Gothic, Kathy A. Fedorko shows how Wharton, in sixteen short stories and six major novels written during four distinct periods of her life, adopts and adapts Gothic elements as a way to explore the nature of feminine and masculine ways of knowing and being and to dramatize the tension between them. Edith Wharton's contradictory views of women and men?her.