Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre

Critics have largely dismissed Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind as a serious work of literature. Although various references to Irish culture permeate Gone with the Wind, the novel has not been compared to any Irish literature or mythology. This thesis compares Gone with the Wind with Irish Big House literature and mythology through the lens of biography and history. The works of William Butler Yeats, Maria Edgeworth, and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross are also employed to show evidence of the connection of Gone with the Wind to Irish Big House literature. This comparison results in a new approach to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind that affords a new reading of the novel.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in English (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Literature and Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Homer, Patricia

Contributors dc:contributor

• David Dudley
• Douglass H. Thomson
• Joe Pellegrino

• ETD
• Mitchell, Margaret
• Irish big house literature
• Irish big house genre
• Yeats, William Butler
• Edgeworth, Maria
• Somerville, Edith
• Ross, Martin
• Ireland
• Georgia

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/179

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1179