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Edith Wharton’s War Stories
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A 6 page work looking at this unusual yet seminal period in Edith Wharton’s life -- her life in France at the outbreak of World War I, and the stories that arose from this experience. Wharton’s literary efforts to raise public awareness about the French people’s plight contributed toward her earning the French Legion of Honor. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KBwhart.wps

Romantic Era Literature / Past & Present
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A 9 page research paper and comparison of Romantic literature authors, with focus on Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Anne Rice and Fannie Flagg. The paper posits that not only did the earlier writers influence the later writers, but that all reject the cannonical view of women's roles of their times and politicize the role of female authorship. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Romnera.wps

Shelley's 'Frankenstein' vs. Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence'
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A 7 page paper in which the writer argues that while both women were expressing changing attitudes in femininity thought in their books through contrast and duality, Edith Wharton's view was made through an expansive flowing growth and Mary Shelley's was from an explosive view. The purpose of both stories was to show the need for men and women to come together in equal treatment of women during different eras. Whereas Wharton looked at the changes from the idea of growing together, Shelley's view was of killing off the old ideas. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Agefrank.wps

The Life of Lily Bart / The Tragic Victim of Social Conventions
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This 5 page paper argues the thesis that Lily Bart, the main character in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, once held a prominent position in New York's Victorian society, and subsequently loses her stature and her friends because of her circumstances. Lily Bart becomes a tragic victim of social conventions and is trapped by bad relationships and confining circumstances that correspond with Victorian values. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Lilybart.wps

The Men In Edith Wharton's Life
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A 5 page paper analyzing the relationship of the men in Edith Wharton's poetry and fiction to the relationships she actually had in her life. The paper determines there is a very close correspondence, and theorizes that putting so much of her personal life into her writing helped her deal with her own experience. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Wharton.doc

The Men In Edith Wharton's Life # 2
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A 4 page paper giving an overview of the men in Edith Wharton's life compared to the men in two of her famous books, Ethan Frome and Summer. She may not have found her one true love or passion, but she put them in all of her works. Several sources cited.
Filename: Edith.wps

The Undead Dead in 'Usher' and 'Gracchus'
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A 6 page paper analyzing the way Edgar allan poe and Franz Kafka deal with the subject of the dead who will not die. The stories compared are Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Kafka's 'The Hunter Gracchus.' No additional sources are listed.
Filename: Usher2.doc

Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Edgar Allan Poe
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This is a 6 page paper comparing two of Poe's stories -- 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter' -- with one of Conan Doyle's -- 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men' -- to demonstrate the heavy reliance of Sherlock Holmes' creator on the work of his predecessor, Poe. The paper concludes that actually Poe's stories and protagonist have more depth than Conan Doyle's, because Holmes' method relies entirely on logic and Dupin relies on behavior and nuance. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Sherloc.wps

Death and Sexuality in Edgar Allan Poe
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A 10 page paper discussing the idea that the source of Poe's morbid imagination may have been the deaths of so many of his female relatives and loved ones, and his inability to separate the concept of 'mothers' from 'brides.' Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Poelong.wps

Death in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
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An 8 page paper examining Poe's short stories for evidence of the author's obsession with death. The paper begins by providing some background on Poe's life, then looks at ten stories, four in detail, in order to show that his fascination with the theme of death was endemic in his personality. A 1 page sentence outline follows paper. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: Fipoe.wps