Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York

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1998
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By contrasting images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, etiquette manuals and the fiction of Edith Wharton, the author of this book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.

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By contrasting images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, etiquette manuals and the fiction of Edith Wharton, the author of this book argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0415905664
ISBN 13: 9780415905664