Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts

Informationen zum Autor Emily J. Orlando is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Tennessee State University. Klappentext 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 individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed. Zusammenfassung Explores the author's concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression.

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• Authors: Emily J Orlando, Emily J. Orlando, Emily J./ Scharnhorst Orlando
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780817355524
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5552-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies