Memorial boxes and guarded interiors : Edith Wharton and material culture /
Totten, Gary.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index.
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.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Material culture in literature.