Term of Award
Spring 2010
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature and Philosophy
Committee Chair
Howard Keeley
Committee Member 1
David Dudley
Committee Member 2
Douglass H. Thomson
Committee Member 3
Joe Pellegrino
Abstract
Critics have largely dismissed Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind as a serious work of literature. Although various references to Irish culture permeate Gone with the Wind, the novel has not been compared to any Irish literature or mythology. This thesis compares Gone with the Wind with Irish Big House literature and mythology through the lens of biography and history. The works of William Butler Yeats, Maria Edgeworth, and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross are also employed to show evidence of the connection of Gone with the Wind to Irish Big House literature. This comparison results in a new approach to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind that affords a new reading of the novel.
Recommended Citation
Homer, Patricia, "Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 179.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/179
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
