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Broken marriage in aristocratic societies in Edith Wharton's selected novels
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Abstract Family is a bridge between individual and society. In my paper, I will survey broken marriage and individual dissatisfaction in two novels by Edith Wharton. The novels in question are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920). Edith Wharton portrays her concern by the conflict betwee... mehr
Family is a bridge between individual and society. In my paper, I will survey broken marriage and individual dissatisfaction in two novels by Edith Wharton. The novels in question are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920). Edith Wharton portrays her concern by the conflict between the individuals and the social groups which they live in there. Her treatment of the family is always in association with the bourgeois society, with the ambitious stock brokers from the west. This conflict can be seen in their attitudes to love, marriage, divorce, and remarriage. In the novels, Marriage, as an indissoluble matter and even an invariable failure, is main concept and sex outside marriage is meaningless. Wharton shows divorce in aristocratic societies in an old-fashioned lifestyle.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Erzählung; Bürgertum; Individuum; soziale Schicht; Konflikt; Familie; bürgerliche Gesellschaft; Ehe; Ehescheidung; Sexualverhalten
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Aristrokratie; Wharton, E.
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 192-196
Zeitschriftentitel
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 49
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.49.192
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)