03841nam 22005893u 450 991045985920332120210107165221.00-8173-8882-6(CKB)3710000000259513(EBL)1813076(MiAaPQ)EBC1813076(EXLCZ)99371000000025951320141020d2014|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors[electronic resource] Edith Wharton and Material CultureTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20141 online resource (328 p.)Amer Lit Realism & NaturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1561-6 Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Edith Wharton and Material Culture / Gary Totten; I. Authority and Professionalism; 2. Presence and Professionalism: The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton / Lyn Bennett; 3. No Innocence in This Age: Edith Wharton''s Commercialization and Commodification / Jamie Barlowe; 4. Materializing the Word: The Woman Writer and the Struggle for Authority in ""Mr. Jones"" / Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan; II. The Body; 5. Picturing Lily: Body Art in ''The House of Mirth'' / Emily J. Orlando6. Building the Female Body: Modern Technology and Techniques at Work in ''Twilight Sleep'' / Deborah J. ZakIII. Consumerism; 7. Fashioning an Aesthetics of Consumption in ''The House of Mirth'' / Jennifer Shepherd; 8. The Futile and the Dingy: Wasting and Being Wasted in ''The House of Mirth'' / J. Michael Duvall; IV. Interiors; 9. The Bachelor Girl and the Body Politic: The Built Environment, Self-Possession, and the Never-Married Woman in The House of Mirth / Linda S. Watts; 10. ""Use Unknown"": Edith Wharton, the Museum Space, and the Writer''s Work / Karin Roffman; V. Technology11. The Machine in the Home: Women and Technology in ''The Fruit of the Tree'' / Gary Totten12. Undine Spragg, the Mirror and the Lamp in ''The Custom of the Country'' / Carol Baker Sapora; Works Cited; Contributors; IndexIn Edith Wharton's works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design, and decoration serve as important commentaries on her vision of the literary arts. In The Decoration of Houses she notes that furniture and bric-à-brac are often crowded into a room in order to comAmer Lit Realism & NaturalismAmerican literatureMaterial culture in literatureWharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretationElectronic books.American literature.Material culture in literature.Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.813.52Totten Gary913472Orlando Emily J1028580Barlowe Jamie451770Wilson-Jordan Jacqueline1028581Roffman Karin1028582Duvall J. Michael1028583Watts Linda S1028584Zak Deborah1028585Bennett Lyn1028586Shepherd Jennifer1028587Sapora Carol1028588AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910459859203321Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors2444633UNINA