Getting into the house of mirth
The text presents an analysis of the novel The House of Mirth, by the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing not only on the issue of gender, which has predominated among critics of the novel, but also on the way the writer elaborates a critique of the precepts of the period through the use of word...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/7461 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7461 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Resumo: | The text presents an analysis of the novel The House of Mirth, by the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing not only on the issue of gender, which has predominated among critics of the novel, but also on the way the writer elaborates a critique of the precepts of the period through the use of words that refer to business and commerce, thus mirroring the world view of the American society of the nineteenth-century. |
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