Edith Wharton and the visual arts / / Emily J. Orlando
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| Autore: |
Orlando Emily J (Emily Josephine), <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Edith Wharton and the visual arts / / Emily J. Orlando
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.52 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
| Visual perception in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women, Art, and the Sexual Politics of (Mis)representation in Edith Wharton; 1. Beauty Enshrined: Living Pictures and Still Lifes; or, Her Body Becomes His Art; 2. Picturing Lily: Body Art in The House of Mirth and "The Potboiler"; or, Her Body Becomes Her Art; 3. "Beauty Enthroned": The Muse's Progress; 4. Angels at the Grave: Custodial Work in the Palace of Art; 5. "We'll look, not at visions, but at realities": Women, Art, and Representation in The Age of Innocence; Notes; Works Consulted; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An insightful look at representations of women'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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Edith Wharton and the visual arts |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8216-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910964628903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.