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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors : Edith Wharton and Material Culture /
American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) once wrote in Harper's that she wanted to "penetrate ... the carefully guarded interior[s]" of her past memories and fashion them "into a little memorial like the boxes formed of exotic shells which sailors used to fabricate between voyag...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Edith Wharton and material culture / Gary Totten
- Presence and professionalism : the critical reception of Edith Wharton / Lyn Bennett
- No innocence in this age : Edith Wharton's commercialization and commodification / Jamie Barlowe
- Materializing the word : the woman writer and the struggle for authority in "Mr. Jones" / Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan
- Picturing Lily : body art in The house of mirth / Emily J. Orlando
- Building the female body : modern technology and techniques at work in Twilight sleep / Deborah J. Zak
- Fashioning an aesthetics of consumption in The house of mirth / Jennifer Shepherd
- The futile and the dingy : wasting and being wasted in The house of mirth / J. Michael Duvall
- 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
- "Use unknown" : Edith Wharton, the museum space, and the writer's work / Karin Roffman
- The machine in the home : women and technology in The fruit of the tree / Gary Totten
- Undine Spragg, the mirror and the lamp in The custom of the country / Carol Baker Sapora.