Date of Award
12-15-2014
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
First Advisor
Gretchen Woertendyke
Abstract
In this work, I attempt to examine the importance of things, the strange agency of objects, which emerges in the literature of the late nineteenth century. To this end, I examine the economy of things in both Henry James and Edith Wharton. I attempt to connect this object agency with the emergent discourses and technologies of the time, and to link these both with media and queer theory.
Rights
© 2014, John Kinard
Recommended Citation
Kinard, J.(2014). 'Precious Objects': Strange 'Things' in James and Wharton. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2931