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Edith Wharton, the American history as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature of the writer, who had a reputation for being regarded as an excellent selling novelist. But after the death of her name in literary circles gradually bury. 1950 years later, the famous literary critic Blake Nevis efforts, Edith Wharton rekindled literary attention, but that period of her research are mostly around her as a Bit customs novelist expanded this focus. Seventies and eighties, people try to learn from feminism, naturalism, modernism perspective of her work, have also made gratifying achievements. Over time, Edith Wharton's works mostly been canonized. History has proven that Edith Wharton is not a short-selling author Henry James or simply an apprenticeship, her work has a unique depth and meaning. Since the nineties, the West Wharton research boom another round, unfortunately, in Chinese academia, she has not been extensively studied. In this paper, their personal experiences and background research for their creative tendencies, Wharton study intended to provide an additional perspective, I hope she can cause more widespread concern. This thesis is divided into five sections: Introduction: An Introduction to Edith Wharton's life experiences as well as the papers involved in her creative peak in the late morning of three masterpieces: 1905's \Eph Yue Tan Mu \Chapter 1: This chapter introduces the Edith Wharton and the United States to escape the traditional literary association. Because the United States is a nation of immigrants sake, fled the United States has a long history of traditional and fled into American literature a motif. Edith Wharton, because of his upbringing and life experiences, her novels, and this will also have a literary motif inextricably linked. Chapter II: Combining Edith Wharton own life experiences of her works which three kinds of escape, mainly fall into three categories: Escape marriage, escape from society, to escape alienation. Chapter Three: Edith Wharton and her own escape from work not escape the negative reaction, but has a positive meaning: a confused society in the means of maintaining their own individuality; painful life solace; is freedom and happiness pursuit. Conclusion: Based on the Edith Wharton novel analysis of these three, combined with her upbringing and biographical works, to be drawn Edith Wharton himself as an escape, she escape the obvious tendency is reflected in her works. But it is not just a passive fled to escape, but has a positive significance. Wharton themselves through escape, get a professional writer independent women's new identity, which deeply affected the time and subsequent females. His work in the escape, fail or succeed, are keeping their own personality, and actively reflect the pursuit of freedom and happiness.
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