Displaying Women - 9780415905664
Un libro in lingua di Montgomery Maureen E. edito da Taylor & Francis, 1998
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Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York's fashionable society.
Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Displaying Women
- Sottotitolo: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Montgomery Maureen E.
- Editore: Taylor & Francis
- Collana: Taylor & Francis (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '98
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Women and literature New York (State) New York Upper class New York (State) New York History City and town life in literature
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0415905664
- EAN-13: 9780415905664