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Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame

Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame A New Perspective on Her Neglected Fiction

1991

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Publisher's Synopsis

This study draws on recent discoveries in the psychology of emotion, most notably Dr Silvan Tomkins' affect theory, in an attempt to examine Wharton's fiction from a fresh angle.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780333552032
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1991
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 351
Weight: 468g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 21mm