Displaying women: spectacles of leisure in edith wharton's new york
Auteur :
Montgomery, Maureen E.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780415905664
Date de publication :
6 avr. 1998
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
500 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.