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Maur Montgomery
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Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York |
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English |
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Paperback |
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272 |
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1998-04-08 |
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0415905664 |
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Routledge |
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0.72 pounds |
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5.91 x 0.51 x 8.82 inches |
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1 |
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Product Description
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.
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