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Title:

Memorial boxes and guarded interiors : Edith Wharton and material culture / edited by Gary Totten.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

x, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
Material culture in literature

Other Authors:

Totten, Gary.

Notes:

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

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

0817354190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817354190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817315616 (alk. paper)
9780817315610 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71812702

LCCN:

2006031481

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)