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Edith Wharton and the visual arts
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- Book Synopsis
- 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, infantilized, 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 individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.
- About The Author
- Emily J. Orlando teaches English at Fairfield University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780817355524
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press, (03 November 2009)
- Number of Pages
- 264
- Weight
- 413 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 152 x 17 mm
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