Henry James: Ethnographer of American Women in Victorian Patriarchy

dc.contributor.advisor	Bell, David F
dc.contributor.author	Halbert, Christine
dc.date.accessioned	2011-05-20T19:13:33Z
dc.date.available	2011-05-20T19:13:33Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.department	Humanities
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the social question: is 19th century women's identity socially determined or do 19th century women have the liberty to forge their own identities as they see fit? In order to answer this question, this paper treats Henry James as ethnographer and "Daisy Miller" and The Portrait of a Lady as ethnographies of American women in Victorian Europe. The primary focus of this paper is Isabel Archer and how she is constructed from Henry James's Daisy Miller and George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth, in order to demonstrate that while 19th century women were victimized by the tyranny of Victorian patriarchy, 19th century women were also capable of resisting and subverting normative Victorian social expectations for women.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/3804
dc.subject	Literature, British & Irish
dc.subject	American literature
dc.subject	Cultural anthropology
dc.subject	Daisy Miller
dc.subject	Ethnographer
dc.subject	Gwendolen Harleth
dc.subject	Henry James
dc.subject	Isabel Archer
dc.subject	The Portrait of a Lady
dc.title	Henry James: Ethnographer of American Women in Victorian Patriarchy
dc.type	Master's thesis

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