For a novel typically viewed as the narrative of heroine
Christian Louboutin Wedge Royall’s illicit affair, pregnancy, and subsequent marriage, Edith Wharton’s Summer presents a wide range of homosocial encounters – between Charity and her North Dormer peers (some of whom appear in the novel and some of whom are only
Christian Louboutin Wedge Shoes, between Charity and women glimpsed in mirrors and on streets, and between Charity and women viewed as others to the norms of late-nineteenthcentury “heteromaternal” femininity – spinsters, prostitutes, female professionals, and differently abled women (Kent 16). ‘ Feminist scholarship on the novel has rotated around the question of Charity’s illicit affair with visiting architect Lucius Harney, her pregnancy, and her subsequent marriage to her guardian, Lawyer Royall, seen on the one hand as quasi-incestuous and “sick” (Ammons
Christian Louboutin OnSale and, on the other hand, as an act of generosity that restores Charity’s virtue.2 More recently, critics have turned their attention to Wharton’s engagement with the racial thinking of the period, as witnessed through the novel’s representations of the ostensibly dysgenic Mountain community, its depiction of the possibilities of women’s reproductive choice,
