| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: women, art, and the sexual politics of (mis)representation in Edith Wharton -- Beauty enshrined: living pictures and still lifes; or, her body becomes his art -- Picturing Lily: body art in The house of mirth and "The potboiler"; or, her body becomes her art -- "Beauty enthrones": the muse's progress -- Angels at the grave; custodial work in the palace of art -- "We'll look, not at visions, but at realities": women, art, and representation in The age of innocence. |
| Summary |
An insightful look at representations of women and rsquo;s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially painting--as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual wome. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Knowledge -- Art.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. (OCoLC)fst00048127
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Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Visual perception in literature.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation. Visual perception in literature. Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Wharton, Edith -- 1862-1937 -- Knowledge.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
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Art and literature. (OCoLC)fst00815400
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Visual perception in literature. (OCoLC)fst01168077
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Orlando, Emily J. (Emily Josephine), 1969- Edith Wharton and the visual arts. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006014321 |
| ISBN |
9780817382162 (electronic bk.) |
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081738216X (electronic bk.) |
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