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-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of...
An insightful look at representations of women s bodies and female authority.
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern w...
These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton s writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies. Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton s engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works. Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton s Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of...
These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton s writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemisph...
