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<p><b>An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority.</b></p> <p>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, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the
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- Author
- Emily J Orlando; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817355524
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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