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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uno.edu/oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1247
Date04 August 2011
CreatorsBraden, Heidi Elizabeth
PublisherScholarWorks@UNO
Source SetsUniversity of New Orleans
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceUniversity of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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