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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism) - Softcover

Book 17 of 38: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Orlando, Emily J.

 
9780817355524: Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0817355529 ISBN 13: 9780817355524
Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2009

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.

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About the Author

Emily J. Orlando teaches English at Fairfield University.

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Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0817355529
ISBN 13 
9780817355524
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264