A01=Emily J. Orlando
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817355524
- Weight: 413g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Emily J. Orlando teaches English at Fairfield University.
