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'The legitimate business of courtship and marriage': Searching for fulfillment in the turn of the century American novel.

机译:“求婚和婚姻的合法业务”:在世纪之交的美国小说中寻求实现。

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This thesis reads three American Naturalist novels---Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening---as challenges to both domestic ideology and to the market. Exploring the boundaries of an individual's interiority and exteriority, these novels suggest an alternate, more fulfilling existence, though never fully conceptualizing it. Naturalism presents characters who must make sense of their world almost wholly on a material level---the world presented in Naturalism is concerned with the what of a person, not the who. Capitalism splits the self by valuing the outward performance rather than the inward development. The female protagonists of these three novels attempt to gain happiness promised by consumerism through the only plot available to them, that of marriage. When this fails, they all three turn to artistic expression as a way to find the inner fulfillment their commercial society refuses. Carrie, Lily, and Edna value the art they pursue not because of its economic value, but because of the emotional liberation it allows them. In developing their art, each of these women gets the chance to examine the interior life that their societies deny. Looking at marriage and the market within these novels, this thesis examines the split between an individual's exterior and interior in fin-de-siecle American fiction.
机译:这篇论文读了三本美国博物学家的小说-西奥多·德雷泽的姐姐嘉莉,伊迪丝·沃顿的《欢乐的房子》和凯特·肖邦的《觉醒》-对国内意识形态和市场的挑战。这些小说探索了个人内在性和外在性的界限,尽管没有完全概念化它,但却提出了一种替代性的,更令人满意的存在。自然主义提出的人物必须几乎完全在物质层面上理解他们的世界-自然主义提出的世界关注的是人的本性,而不是谁。资本主义通过评价外在表现而不是内在发展来分裂自我。这三部小说的女性主角试图通过消费主义获得的唯一情节,即婚姻的情节来获得幸福。当这一切失败时,他们三人都将艺术表达作为寻找商业社会所拒绝的内在满足的一种方式。嘉莉(Carrie),莉莉(Lily)和埃德娜(Edna)珍视他们追求的艺术,并不是因为其经济价值,而是因为其情感上的解放,使他们得以接受。在发展自己的艺术时,这些妇女中的每一个都有机会检查自己的社会否认的内部生活。着眼于这些小说中的婚姻和市场,本论文考察了美国电影中小说中个体的外在与内在之间的分裂。

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  • 作者

    Eslinger, Jessica D.;

  • 作者单位

    Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.;

  • 授予单位 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.;
  • 学科 Literature.;American literature.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 84 p.
  • 总页数 84
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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