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Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
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, Wha...more
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
October 28th 2008
by University Of Alabama Press
(first published January 14th 2007)
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