Memorial boxes and guarded interiors
Subtitle: Edith Wharton and material culture
By: edited by Gary Totten
Contributors: Totten, Gary
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780817315610; 9780817354190
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, -- 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation; Material culture in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Edith Wharton and material culture / Gary Totten; title: Presence and professionalism : the critical reception of Edith Wharton / Lyn Bennett; title: No innocence in this age : Edith Wharton's commercialization and commodification / Jamie Barlowe; title: Materializing the word : the woman writer and the struggle for authority in "Mr. Jones" / Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan; title: Picturing Lily : body art in The house of mirth / Emily J. Orlando; title: Building the female body : modern technology and techniques at work in Twilight sleep / Deborah J. Zak; title: Fashioning an aesthetics of consumption in The house of mirth / Jennifer Shepherd; title: The futile and the dingy : wasting and being wasted in The house of mirth / J. Michael Duvall; title: 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; title: "Use unknown" : Edith Wharton, the museum space, and the writer's work / Karin Roffman; title: The machine in the home : women and technology in The fruit of the tree / Gary Totten; title: Undine Spragg, the mirror and the lamp in The custom of the country / Carol Baker Sapora