Edith Wharton and the visual arts

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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-…

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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:1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817382162, 081738216X
oclc:ocn614597879
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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1900 - 1999 Art Art and literature Art and literature -- History -- 20th c… Art et littérature -- Histoire -- 20e s… Criticism, interpretation, etc History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American Perception visuelle dans la littérature United States Visual perception in literature Wharton, Edith