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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"House of Mirth"”.
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… and Commodity Culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth" attempts to establish a trans-Atlantic 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 …
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The Effect of Mentorship: A Test of Strength and Survival in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie & Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
<p>In this thesis, I will compare the role of Mentorship in the lives of protagonists Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, and Carrie Meeber of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Both Lily and Carrie experience life altering events that force them into unfamiliar roles amidst the …
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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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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
<p> <p>This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a …
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… textile mills wrote and published The Lowell Offering in order to assert their own respectability. They define the operative in contrast to the fashionable ""lady do-nothing"" and reinforce the connection between dress and the labor that goes into producing it. In The Deserted Wife and …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… narrative which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an empirical access (via visual processes of the …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
Novels of manners exhibit social economies that bear some metaphorical resemblance to literal economies. In England and America, before the women's movement and the introduction of large numbers of women into the workforce, this was the woman's economy: the economy of manners. This thesis examines …
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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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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… industrial city, which serves as the site of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of city life, the (limited) mobility urbanization offered women, and the growth of consumer culture. Drawing …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Whiteness</italic>, I reveal whiteness--though oftentimes still an implicit critical assumption of normalcy--as a complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
<p>My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on …