"New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country." American Literature. 68.4 (Dec 1996): 765-797.MacComb, Debra Ann. "New Wives for Old: Divorce and the Leisure-Class Marriage Market in Edith Wharton's `The Custom of the ...
Travis Banton had been designing fashions for couturiere Madame Frances. His first big success with the house was his design for Mary Pickford’s wedding dress to Douglas Fairbanks. General Manager Walter Wanger brought Travis Banton to Paramount to design the costumes forThe Dressmaker from Paris(...
Suicide is a central narrative theme in much of women's literature, especially as it connects with female artists seeking autonomy in their personal and professional lives. Inheriting from the Victorian tradition a focus upon self-inflicted death, many of the current century's female writers ...
her novels reveal more general contradictions in the economic conditions of United States' society at the time. Wharton's effort to illustrate their irreconcilable differences as they relate to marriage offers a dramatic critique of the place of women and the mechanisms of their social subordination....
AnnIndiana/PurdueW.Indiana/PurdueEBSCO_AspShofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesAstell, Ann W. 2004. "Saintly Mimesis, Contagion, and Empathy in the Thought of Rene Girard, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22 (2): 116-31....