"On Lily Bart's Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class": What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel
[Introduction] Lily Bart, the queen of easy elegance and perfectly-timed blushes, experiences a dramatic fall in status in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Once a socialite whose presence hosts vied for, Lily progressively falls into more and more dishonorable positions until she ultimately peris...
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https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/13950/1/Victoria%20Liu%20-%20McClure%20-%20English.pdfLiu, Victoria (2020) "On Lily Bart's Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class": What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel. Other, California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/62fy-de93. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09162020-090850903 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09162020-090850903>