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Filtering by: Creator Graves, Christopher J. Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Subject Nature in literature

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

Creator:

Bacon, Julie M.

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This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...

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Masters Thesis

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An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

Creator:

Dotterman, Anthony Matthew

Abstract:

This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...

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Masters Thesis