Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Coyle, William

Abstract

Lillian Hellman uses the Reconstructed South as an emblem of the social and personal evils which result from a society based on a system of unconscionable capitalism. In her plays The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest she traces the rise of industrialism in the emergence of the "New South." The erosion of the aristocratic ideal of the Old South is exemplified by the characters in The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic who lack the will to act and live obsessed with the past. In order to fully appreciate her Southern plays it is necessary to recognize the fact that they are a composite of Southern myth and history and the author's own instinctive feelings about her native region. To classify these aspects and to correlate them with historical facts enhances the under standing of these works by placing them within a cultural framework.

Extent

82 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13891

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