Displaying women : spectacles of leisure in Edith Wharton's New York

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Displaying women : spectacles of leisure in Edith Wharton's New York

Maureen E. Montgomery

Routledge, 1998

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index

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: hbk ISBN 9780415905657

内容説明

This study explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen was one of the fundamental principles in the aesthetic display of New York's fashionable society at the turn of the century. Women, in particular, embraced rituals of display, on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, at the Opera and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants. The book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, society and women's magazines, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, the author offers an antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power. The study seeks to make a contribution to social and cultural history, as well as to women's studies and literary criticism.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415905664

内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Social Calendar
  • Chapter 2 The Female World of Ritual and Etiquette
  • Chapter 3 Interiors and Facades
  • Chapter 4 Women Abroad
  • Chapter 5 "Optical Excursions"
  • Chapter 6 Women in the Public Eye
  • conclusion Spectacle and Surveillance

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