Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-08-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:13:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mello_lgr_me_arafcl.pdf: 466198 bytes, checksum: 33a6510162a01ccd8bc31946efc27dc0 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O trabalho a ser apresentado terá como tema o romance histórico, narrativas nas quais a ficção é marcada pela arte de apresentar com vida cenários e acontecimentos históricos, antes definidos pela formalidade dos textos dos historiadores; assim como levantará a questão da literatura de mulheres que se constitui como categoria diferente por apresentar estrutura e temas diferenciados do já conhecido “discurso masculino”. Mais especificamente buscar-se-á definir como se dá a apresentação da História e do mundo feminino por meio da ficção feita por mulheres, representadas, neste estudo, pela autora norte-americana Edith Wharton em The buccaneers (1937) e pela brasileira Ana Miranda em Desmundo (1996). / The theme of this work is the historical novel. In this type of narrative, fiction is marked by the art of presenting realistic historical settings and facts which were previously defined by the formality of historians’ texts. The historical novel equally provides a forum for presenting women’s literature which can be perceived as a different structure and theme from the already known “masculine discourse”. Specifically, this work seeks to define how the female history and world are presented through female authors, as represented here by the American author Edith Wharton in The Buccaneers (1937) and the Brazilian author Ana Miranda in Desmundo (1996).

The purpose of this thesis is to discover the extent of Edith Wharton's use of social problems in her novels.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-238).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: Susan Goodman & Carl Dawson, Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Wharton’s heroines are ordinary women who fight to secure material comfort and create selves that satisfy their emotional and sexual needs. These women often find that the two goals are mutually exclusive, since society strictly dictates appropriate behavior. This code of behavior stems from their relation to men: as objects to be won, as wives, and as mothers. In many instances, women are not even aware of their prescriptive roles and confuse their search for self with a search for security. Material comfort does not nurture Wharton’s heroines’ inner selves and they feel a metaphysical dissatisfaction, often seeking to find contentment through divorce or affairs. What they find in either case is that the cure to their ennui is not material, but mental. Wharton’s women seek a transcendent self—a self that is not dependent upon popular notions of respectability; a spiritual state that is independent from any attachment to social imperatives.