| URN |
etd-0128108-230839 |
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| Author |
Wen-te Wang |
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| Author's Email Address |
No Public. |
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| Statistics |
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| Department |
Foreign Language and Literature |
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| Year |
2007 |
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| Semester |
1 |
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| Degree |
Master |
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| Type of Document |
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| Language |
English |
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| Title |
On the Road to Discovery: Tom Jones and Property |
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| Date of Defense |
2008-01-22 |
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| Page Count |
85 |
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| Keyword |
possessions
fortune
liberty
human nature
morality
marriage
gender's equality
male dominance
female autonomy
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| Abstract |
This thesis mainly elaborates on male and female characters’ interaction with and response to property in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. I divide property into two possessions: fortune and liberty. Fortune plays a controlling means to reflect the subtle change of human nature on the matter of morality. Also, the deprivation of liberty shows female’s position in marriage and gender’s equality in society. Either morality or gender issue is a challenge to tradition in the eighteenth century. I particularly analyze how Fielding puts these two issues into this novel and the messages he attempts to deliver to us.
This thesis consists of three chapters. In chapter one, I focus on the interaction between human nature and property. In chapter two, I deal with male dominance over female autonomy in marriage. In the last chapter, I discuss the reverse positions between men and women as they stand upon in chapter two by the examples of Jones and his three lovers. |
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| Advisory Committee |
Li-ching Chen - chair
Shu-fang Lai - co-chair
Rudolphus Teeuwen - advisor
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| Files |
indicate access worldwide |
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| Date of Submission |
2008-01-28 |
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