The angel in the garden : recovering Elizabeth von Arnim's The pastor's wife / by Ashley Oles.

Author/creator Oles, Ashley
Other author Feder, Helena.
Other author East Carolina University. Department of English.
Format Theses and dissertations
Publication Info[Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2012.
Description64 pages : digital, PDF file
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Summary This thesis aims to examine Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife for two major purposes: 1) to work toward recovering von Arnim's work, which I believe to be important and worthy of critical attention, and 2) to examine the ways in which von Arnim criticizes gender conventions in western culture. In order to do this, my thesis is broken down into three chapters. Because this novel, like most of her novels, is heavily based on events in her life, I spend the first chapter examining relevant events in her life and her first book Elizabeth and her German Garden . In the second, I survey the critical work that has been done on von Arnim. In the final chapter, I closely examine how von Arnim uses dualistic relationships between men and women and humans and nature, and the structure of a modified Bildungsroman in order to create a story that is wholly critical of patriarchal culture.
General notePresented to the faculty of the Department of English.
General noteAdvisor: Helena Feder.
General noteTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed March 4, 2013).
Dissertation noteM.A. East Carolina University 2012.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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