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  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

    Creator:
    Larsen, Haley A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    Masters Thesis
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    artist’s work, like Walt Whitman’s, whom Adams names as one of few “American artists who had ever