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

Creator:

Larsen, Haley A.

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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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thank Peter Betjemann, Meghan Freeman, David Robinson, and Susan Shaw for serving on my thesis
From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Creator:

Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.

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The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....

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Masters Thesis

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for stronger ones: David Monaghan contrasts "soft and yielding" female characters, like Jane Bennet