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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Totten, Gary
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Collection:Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.