nature of American society during the industrialization of the late 1800s. The article discusses specific locations through which this transformation is effected, including a bourgeois apartment, a railway station, a library, and a tourist boarding house. tribulation in these novels by Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920).

And the idea of the affair is that they just completely surrender themselves. ItвЂ™s not about adultery, itвЂ™s about a passionate love affair between a young, callow American guy and an even younger French woman. This article traces these architectural manifestations and argues that, as the narrator appears increasingly irrational, boundaries of nation, of public and private, and of gendered conventions disintegrate in ways that illustrate how literary setting becomes a vehicle of modernist literary experimentation. My first James Salter novel is A Sport and a Pastime. One thematic emphasis links transgressions of public and private with specific architectural manifestations. This novel tells a story of adultery, divorce, and lesbian desire, while tracing, through a first-person voice, the narrator's professed descent into madness. In its conception, publication, and reception, A Madman's Defense straddles both national and linguistic borders its plot involves travel trajectories that link Sweden with the continent, and Stockholm with Paris. The German version was taken to court on indecency charges in Vilhelmine Berlin, the French version became a scandal, and Strindberg never authorized the novel for publication in Sweden.ДЄlthough A Madman's Defense helped cement Strindberg's reputation at home and abroad as a paranoid misogynist, it also provides a complementary trajectory for understanding the emergence of European transnational prose modernism. Written in Denmark in French in 1887вЂ“88, Swedish author August Strindberg's novel A Madman's Defense ( Le Plaidoyer d'un fou) was first published in an 1893 German translation and subsequently released in a manicured French version in 1895.

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