{"product_id":"about-edith-wharton-souls-belated-von-elisabeth-eidner","title":"About Edith Wharton: \"Souls Belated\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: bestanden, University of Leipzig (Institut für Amerikanistik), course: The 19th century in American female fiction, language: English, abstract: enforcements and become an independent human being. In which way she tries to \"free\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eherself from the entrapment called marriage, which developments her way to her personal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliberty goes through and if she eventually succeeds will be discussed in this term paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of this term paper, I want to report briefly about the second half of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enineteenth century in America and the role of women, especially female writers. Afterward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere will be a short look at the author's vita, because the way Wharton lived tells us much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout her understanding of different themes. Then I want to analyze Wharton's short story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Souls Belated' which contains a lot of themes and symbols, from which the most interesting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be described and interpreted. In a final conclusion I will try find an answer to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eessential topic of Wharton's story: Does the protagonist succeed in escaping the social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econventions due to her divorce or does she fail? And is it possible at all to \"free\" oneself of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe social imprisonment of the time described, particularly as a woman?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis term paper focuses on the thesis, that 'Souls Belated' is mirroring the social conditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Edith Wharton's 19th century New York Society and the institution of marriage as a kind of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecage for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656046967\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656046967","offer_id":39438330626141,"sku":"9783656046967","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3a78d754-83d9-4834-a7cf-b6163d668f95.jpg?v=1777870360","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/about-edith-wharton-souls-belated-von-elisabeth-eidner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}