Edith Wharton and the visual arts /
An insightful look at representations of women & 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...
| Основен автор: | Orlando, Emily J. 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Edith Wharton and the visual arts. |
Съдържание:
- 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.