Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5552-4
Verlag: University of Alabama Press
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.
