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Edith Wharton and material culture

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English
Pages
315

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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture
2014, University of Alabama Press
in English
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Memorial boxes and guarded interiors: Edith Wharton and material culture
2007, University of Alabama Press
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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index

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Tuscaloosa
Series
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

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Library of Congress
PS3545.H16 Z746 2007, PS3545.H16Z746 2007

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Pagination
x, 315 p. :
Number of pages
315

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OL17224668M
Internet Archive
memorialboxesgua0000unse
ISBN 10
0817315616, 0817354190
ISBN 13
9780817315610, 9780817354190
LCCN
2006031481
OCLC/WorldCat
71812702
Library Thing
4015333
Goodreads
3087028
2443289

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