TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noura Salah Eldin Mahmoud Roushdy Alabbady 
AU  - Hoda Gindi  , 
AU  - Nadia El Kholy , 
TI  - A New historicist reading of selected novels by Edith Wharton / 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Noura Salah Eldin Mahmoud Roushdy Alabbady , 
KW  - Edith Wharton
KW  - New historicism
KW  - Power
N1  - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD
N2  - The thesis aims at examining the social structures and their influence on the individuals in the  second half of the Nineteenth century and the early Twentieth century in America. This  transitional period was confused between the desperate attempts of holding on to the old values  and sense of social duty against the overflowing tides of industrialization, rising modernism and  the new money. It marks a severely oppressive era for American people. In order to highlight the  aforementioned dialectical relation between society and the individual, two exemplary novels by  the writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) namely, The Age of Innocence (1920) and Ethan  Frome(1911)will be examined. Wharton{u2019}s novels are considered alandmark of the turn of the  twentieth century American literature for their detailed and piercing views of society, marking  the changes occurring to the American society in this era. These two novels in study represent  two major sides of American society, the rich urban city of New York and the rural hillsidesof  New England. The reading makes use of the tools of New Historicism with a special focus on  Foucault{u2019}s concept of Power, since it encompasses a wider scope of social and cultural studies  that pertain to serving the main aim of the thesis
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