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Author:

Benert, Annette, 1941-

Title:

The architectural imagination of Edith Wharton : gender, class, and power in the progressive era / Annette Benert.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture in literature.
Space (Architecture) in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Dwellings in literature.
Upper class in literature.
Social status in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-254) and index.

Contents:

Renaissance woman -- The Italian spectacle -- Prisons of privilege -- Maintaining the margins -- The romance of nature -- The French war -- Losing Atlantis.

ISBN:

9780838641064 (alk. paper)
0838641067 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70054283

LCCN:

2006018652

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)