| Titre | Corps féminin et échange symbolique : d'Edith Wharton à Ellen Glasgow | |
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| Auteur | Brigitte Intissar-Zaugg | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 69, juin 1996 Femmes écrivains au tournant du siècle. | |
| Page | 19 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
New Yorker Edith Wharton and Virginian Ellen Glasgow are often associated by literary critiques as both wrote novels of and were staunch defenders of the feminine cause. This article deals with their positions toward marriage and the financial dependence of woman through the portrayal of three female characters : Lily Bart in The House of Mirth (1905) and Undine Spragg in The Custom of the Country (1913) by E. Wharton, and Dorinda Oakley in Barren Ground (1925) by E. Glasgow. We shall use as a basis Claude Lévi-Strauss s and Pierre Legendre's remarks on the subject of exchange, as well as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's reflections on marriage. The three heroines are all confronted with marriage at some point in their lives ; none of them really reaches her goal and can be said to be truly happy. Of the three, only Dorinda manages to come to terms with the life she has made for herself, thereby revealing that Glasgow went one step further than Wharton in the advancement of the feminine cause. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1996_num_69_1_1648 |
