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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.