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University of New Orleans
Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<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 fortune that allegedly enables her to have more autonomy than Lily, both characters are negatively affected by their inability to conceive of their lives outside of social convention.</p> </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Braden, Heidi Elizabeth
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Boyd-Rioux, Anne
- Malmgren, Carl
- Lackey, Kris
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/453
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1247