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Edith Wharton and the visual arts /
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. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially painting--as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. 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 women. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382162 081738216X |