Intimate Exchanges: Work, Affect, and Exploitation in Edith Wharton’s <i>The House of Mirth</i>
The opposition between the world of work and the exchanges that constitute it, on the one hand, and that of intimacy and affect, on the other, has been a rich source of criticism on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth ever since its publication in 1905. Through a close rereading of the novel in terms...
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Language: | English |
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CBS Open Journals
2014-02-01
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Series: | American Studies in Scandinavia |
Online Access: | https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5150 |