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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lily Bart"”.
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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
… 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 fortune that allegedly enables her to have …
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… he or she lives. By reading Dorian Gray and Lily Bart through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation (1981), the companion chapters show the extent to which each character's reality is complicated by his or her illusory relationship with both fine arts and social artistry. …
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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
… 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 upper-class New York Society of the early …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… seductive alternative in her characterization of Lily Bart.</p><p>My third chapter addresses the feminist insistence on sexual equality in the modernist era. I begin by presenting work of feminist sexual reformers such as Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennet, and Helena Rosa Wright who argue that, in …