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1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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Introduction : Edith Wharton and material culture / Gary Totten -- Presence and professionalism : the critical reception of Edith Wharton / Lyn Bennett -- No innocence in this age : Edith Wharton's commercialization and commodification / Jamie Barlowe -- Materializing the word : the woman writer and the struggle for authority in "Mr. Jones" / Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan -- Picturing Lily : body art in The house of mirth / Emily J. Orlando -- Building the female body : modern technology and techniques at work in Twilight sleep / Deborah J. Zak -- Fashioning an aesthetics of consumption in The house of mirth / Jennifer Shepherd -- The futile and the dingy : wasting and being wasted in The house of mirth / J. Michael Duvall -- The bachelor girl and the body politic : the built environment, self-possession, and the never-married woman in The house of mirth / Linda S. Watts -- "Use unknown" : Edith Wharton, the museum space, and the writer's work / Karin Roffman -- The machine in the home : women and technology in The fruit of the tree / Gary Totten -- Undine Spragg, the mirror and the lamp in The custom of the country / Carol Baker Sapora |
| Summary |
American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) once wrote in Harper's that she wanted to "penetrate ... the carefully guarded interior[s]" of her past memories and fashion them "into a little memorial like the boxes formed of exotic shells which sailors used to fabricate between voyages." For Totten (English, North Dakota State U.) this statement is a striking reminder of the connections between material objects and cultural meanings in Wharton's life and work. He presents 11 essays that explore these connections in a variety of ways. Topics include critical linkages of Wharton to materiality as a means to keep her outside the canonical, resistance to commodification in The House of Mirth, the creation of the disposable object and Wharton's characters' fears of their disposability, Wharton's ideas about the use of museum space in The Age of Innocence, and the effect of technology on domestic space in The Fruit of the Tree |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 |
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Wharton, Edith. |
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Material culture in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Material culture in literature
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Alltagskultur Motiv
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Sachkultur
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Ding Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Totten, Gary
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| LC no. |
2006031481 |
| ISBN |
9780817388829 |
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0817388826 |
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