Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

2007 Art

Author : Emily J. Orlando
Release : 2007
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts written by Emily J. Orlando. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

1998

Author : Patrizia Zampini
Release : 1998
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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts written by Patrizia Zampini. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edith Wharton

1996 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Helen Killoran
Release : 1996
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Helen Killoran. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the popularity of Edith Wharton's novels and stories, her artistic genius has never been fully appreciated. Accordingly, this book provides new readings of such familiar favourites as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence as well as neglected works such as Twilight Sleep and The Glimpses of the Moon. The effect of this study is to require reassessment not only of the critical possibilities of Edith Wharton's work and the private life about which she was so reticent, but also of her position in American literature. The book concludes that as a bridge between the Victorian and modern periods, Edith Wharton should stand independently as an American writer of the first rank.

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

2016-09-16 Literary Criticism

Author : Meredith L. Goldsmith
Release : 2016-09-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism written by Meredith L. Goldsmith. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors: Ferdâ Asya | William Blazek | Rita Bode | Donna Campbell | Mary Carney | Clare Virginia Eby | June Howard | Meredith L. Goldsmith | Sharon Kim | D. Medina Lasansky | Maureen Montgomery | Emily J. Orlando | Margaret A. Toth | Gary Totten

Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction

1990 Literary Criticism

Author : Penelope Vita-Finzi
Release : 1990
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction written by Penelope Vita-Finzi. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vita-Finzi (English literature and theatre studies, Ealing College, London) explores Wharton's concept of the artist through a study of her fiction, published and unpublished, and autobiographical material. She shows that Wharton's views were rooted in 19th century thought rather than contemporary literary and intellectual debates, and refutes the view of Wharton as a standard 19th century "woman writer". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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