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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"The Age of Innocence"”.
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
This study is a comparative reading of three novels on sentimental education: G. Flaubert's L'(')Education sentimentale, G. D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, and E. Wharton's The Age of Innocence. It chronicles the love obsessions of three young men as they search for the female embodiment of the …
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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
The principal concern of this thesis is the extent to which male and female characters in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native (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 …
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Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse
<p>The ideal woman of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the "Angel in the House"-a woman who was sweet, shy, and modest. She lived to please the men in her life. She was also the child-woman who was sheltered from the knowledge of the world because it would be too painful and heavy for …
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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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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
1920 saw an eruption of significant American novels portraying conflicts between individuals and community norms. These tensions between individuals and their families, churches, social classes, and towns, for example, conveyed the Progressive-era antagonisms toward civil society. In their …
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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 …