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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
In this dissertation, I scrutinize the formation of female identity in the nineteenth century, which internalized a division between celibate and conjugal life. Additionally, I examine the debate over women's place in Victorian society, particularly the constituency of unmarried women whose …
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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 …