Displaying Women : Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415905664
ISBN-13
9780415905664
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 6th, 1998
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
338 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
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By contrasting images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, etiquette manuals and the fiction of Edith Wharton, the author of this book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.
Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York''s fashionable society.
Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women''s history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women''s history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
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