Edith Wharton and the visual arts

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"Emily Orlando contends that while Wharton's early work presents women enshrined by men through art, the middle and later fiction shifts the seat of power to women. From Lily Bart in The House of Mirth to Undine Spragg in The Custom of the Country and Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence, women evolve from victims to vital agents, securing for themselves a more empowering and satisfying relationship to art and to their own identities." "Orlando also studies the lesser-known short stories and n…

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Title Statements

Full title :Edith Wharton and the visual arts / Emily J. Orlando.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Alabama Press
Place of Publication:Tuscaloosa
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 250 p. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817315375, 0817315373
oclc:on1257337326
LC Classification:PS3545.H16
Dewey Decimal:813/.52

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.

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Art Art and literature Art and literature -- History -- 20th c… Art et littérature -- Histoire -- 20e s… Criticism, interpretation, etc History Perception visuelle dans la littérature United States Visual perception in literature Wharton, Edith