Lily Bart is the heroine of The house of mirth, the novel by American writer Edith Wharton, while Carrie Meeber is the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie. Both novels are set at the beginning of 20th cen...Lily Bart is the heroine of The house of mirth, the novel by American writer Edith Wharton, while Carrie Meeber is the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie. Both novels are set at the beginning of 20th century and criticize a changing American society in which people were forced to recognize the influence of money and struggled to realize their ＂American Dream＂. On the one hand, Lily and Carrie greatly resemble each other in marriage motivation, living environment, standard of values, and moral awareness. On the other hand, their different levels of upholding moral values lead to their different fates.展开更多
Historical studies on the character of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth have predominantly revolved around psychology,sociology,and aesthetics,yet neglecting the significance and role of the body withi...Historical studies on the character of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth have predominantly revolved around psychology,sociology,and aesthetics,yet neglecting the significance and role of the body within the narrative.Using Brooks’s concept of body writing,this paper focuses on exploring Lily’s body in three dimensions:the body of vision(self-objectification);the body of privacy(moral dilemma);and the body of modernity(overdose symbolizing the clash of science and humanity).Scrutinizing and analyzing the body writing in The House of Mirth reveal the feminist undercurrents of Lily’s character and highlight the broader and significant role of body writing in literary works.展开更多
文摘Lily Bart is the heroine of The house of mirth, the novel by American writer Edith Wharton, while Carrie Meeber is the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie. Both novels are set at the beginning of 20th century and criticize a changing American society in which people were forced to recognize the influence of money and struggled to realize their ＂American Dream＂. On the one hand, Lily and Carrie greatly resemble each other in marriage motivation, living environment, standard of values, and moral awareness. On the other hand, their different levels of upholding moral values lead to their different fates.
文摘Historical studies on the character of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth have predominantly revolved around psychology,sociology,and aesthetics,yet neglecting the significance and role of the body within the narrative.Using Brooks’s concept of body writing,this paper focuses on exploring Lily’s body in three dimensions:the body of vision(self-objectification);the body of privacy(moral dilemma);and the body of modernity(overdose symbolizing the clash of science and humanity).Scrutinizing and analyzing the body writing in The House of Mirth reveal the feminist undercurrents of Lily’s character and highlight the broader and significant role of body writing in literary works.
