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

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

Montgomery, Maureen E.

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415905664
ISBN13: 9780415905664
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 6 1998
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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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