Watching the Flame of Youth
2020 ◽
pp. 149-204
Focusing on the “flaming youth” figure of the 1920s, this chapter explores the prevalence of discussions about child marriage in works by Wharton and Fabian, exploring forms of generation-specific authority and the peculiar age-specific qualities of the “child-woman” at the center of these plots. Scenes of youthful teen girls’ slumber, which frequently overlap with middle-aged men’s sexual interests, predict many of the aspects of these relationships that interest Wharton, whose fictions imagine child marriage, then increasingly problematize the age-asymmetrical relationships involved in such unions.
2006 ◽
Vol 175
(4S)
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pp. 325-325
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2020 ◽
pp. 1-10
2015 ◽
Vol 85
(3-4)
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pp. 129-144
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2001 ◽
Vol 29
(5)
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pp. 329-340
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