Mirror, Mirror

This study of women in Edith Wharton's major novels is cross-disciplinary in scope, as it uses myth and psychology to inform literary analysis. Ovid's myth, Freud's definition of narcissism, and Lacan's theory of the mirror stage shed light on the psychology of May Welland (The Age of Innocence), Un...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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