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Title: The displacement of desire: consumerism and fetishism in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Fiction.(Critical Essay)
Author: Monika M. Elbert
Publication: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Page: 192(24)Article Type: Critical EssayDistributed by Thompson Gale
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It is not improbable that every fetishist is a lost poet. Wilhelm Stekel In the face of an impending marriage with a man who has absented himself for many years, Louisa in Mary Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun" (1887) prefers her domestic collectibles--the little "female appurtenances" which have made her solitary life bearable, if not fulfilling, similarly, the narcissistic Narcissa in "One Good Time" (1897) decides to postpone her marriage so she can indulge in one good shopping spree in New York, and Charlotte in "A Tragedy from the Trivial" (1900) literally dies from tubercular consumption in a repressive marriage to a greedy husband after having lived a life of economic consumption prior to marriage. What these...
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