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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Edith Wharton"”.
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Irony in the novelettes of Edith Wharton.
… this study, entitled "Irony in the Novelettes of Edith Wharton," is to show that as a conscious stylist Mrs. Wharton imbued with a framework of irony the eight novelettes discussed. The individual works are Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes, The Marne, Ethan Frome, False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, …
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Edith Wharton's treatment of marriage.
… style and setting and the continuity of theme in Edith Wharton's fiction. Her treatment of marriage and divorce is used as the basis for comparison. Several themes are traced through her work and their possible relation to her own life is indicated. The most important themes are the underlying …
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Edith Wharton: Vision and Perception in Her Short Stories
In Edith Wharton's short stories, vision and perception play key roles in stories pertaining to marriage and divorce, artists and writers, and social and personal values.
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
<p>Edith Wharton is undoubtedly one of American literature's foremost critics of society; however, little has been written of her use of the Gothic as part of her social commentary. Within all of Wharton's fiction, ranging from her ghost stories to her more celebrated classics such as The House of …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… spanning more than fifty years (1885 to 1937), Edith Wharton portrayed American women weathering a tremendous sea change in society's expectations of them. In the 1960s the unsealing of Wharton's personal papers encouraged scholars to assign new value to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing on the …
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The comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the pederastic tradition
… created a need to reexamine James' influence on Edith Wharton and her works. In this dissertation, I explore how James introduced Wharton to a circle of friends (the "Happy Few"), a group of queer men-of-letters who provided the author with both a literal and figurative space for discovering an …
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Serialisation, Settings, Characters: a comparative case study of gender roles in society, as addressed in selected novels by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
… (1878), Henry James’s The Europeans (1878) and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) succeed in contributing to, or halting, the processes of change in their respective societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In combination, these three novels provide a particularly …
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes
Although Edith Wharton is finally recognized as a major American novelist, her remarkable canon of short stories has been largely ignored. Such neglect is regrettable, for the diversity of the stories suggests that some common perceptions of Wharton may well be misconceptions: that her works are …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… represented in selected supernatural fiction by Edith Wharton, we explore the socio-gender relationships, as well as the gender roles of women in general as they existed in the early part of the twentieth century. These associations are discussed, as is the influence Henry James may have had on …
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Competing visions: Women writers and male illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration
… in texts by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Edith Wharton, Pauline Hopkins, and Zitkala-Sa exposes how writers, illustrators, and readers made sense of some of the most important ideological debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p>
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
… and heavy for her fragile shoulders to endure. Edith Wharton, in The Age of Innocence, and Jane Austen, in Emma challenge this ideal picture by creating their respective heroines, May and Emma, to be the exact opposite of it. Though May constantly acts like the ideal woman mentioned earlier, she …
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, each of whom wrote fictions about the American girl that characterized her as a figure representative of her society's problems and promise, Bishop, Plath, Rich, and Sexton helped to transform the way women in particular write about …
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
… novels—The Buccaneers (1938; 1993; 1993) by Edith Wharton, Juneteenth (1999) by Ralph Ellison, and The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace—and to elaborate in the process new conceptual models of authorship and individuality. Against Death asks us to recognize an individual author’s …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Fannie Hurst engage, formally and thematically, with pragmatic ideologies underlying Progressive Era reforms, especially their general interest in de-personalizing maid/mistress relationships and privatizing …
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, commodities, and the society in which he or she lives. By reading Dorian Gray and Lily Bart through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and …
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