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Teaching Wharton in American Literature Class : A Case Study of Intertextual Reading of Gender

&nbsp;&nbsp;Edith Wharton has been consistently underestimated as a "minor" or an "unimportant" writer and thus, excluded from American literature classes in Korea which teach only "major" writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. This thesis deals with the way in which Wharton, who has been considered "unimportant," can be used as an "important" writer in terms of an intertextual approach of gender.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Chapter one explores the status of Wharton and her contemporary women writers in American literary history. Chapter two discusses Wharton&quot;s significance by analysing the similarities and differences of Wharton and male writers in the nineteenth century America such as Hawthorne and James. Chapter three compares Wharton&quot;s The House of Mirth and James&quot;s The Portrait of a Lady and discusses the possibility of subverting the tradition of male discourse and refashioning new feminist discourse in American literary history. Chapter four examines correlation of works written by Wharton and the male writers in the twentieth century America. Chapter five discusses an example of an intertextual comparison of British and American novels using Wharton&quot;s The Custom of the Country and Thackeray&quot;s Vanity Fair.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Teaching Wharton with intertextual approach in American literature class will be helpful in solving the problem of tedious class which always deals with same writers and in adding variety to syllabi of American literature course.