This study examines the idea of escape in the lives and fiction of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, addressing how these individuals embraced an ethos of escape that had continuously developed in Western society at least since the Enlightenment. Specifically, it explores the disassociation, displacement, and angst characterizing aesthetic modernism, feelings greatly affecting these authors and shaping their literary characters. As traditional life markers lost significance during the first quarter of the twentieth-century, authors (and their characters) found it more difficult to distinguish themselves in a world where previous value systems seemed dead and new beliefs powerless to be born. / A Dissertation submitted to the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2014. / May 16, 2014. / American, Escape, Feminism, Freedom, Literature, Nada / Includes bibliographical references. / John Fenstermaker, Professor Directing Dissertation; David Johnson, University Representative; William Cloonan, Committee Member; Eric Walker, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_185385 |
| Contributors | Ellis, Charles Steven (authoraut), Fenstermaker, John (professor directing dissertation), Johnson, David (university representative), Cloonan, William (committee member), Walker, Eric (committee member), Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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