Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Displaying Women

Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York

Displaying Women( )
Author: Montgomery, Maureen E.
ISBN:978-0-415-90566-4
Publication Date:Apr 1998
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $63.99
Book 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...
More Description



Featured Books

The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback: $10.99
I Love You Through and Through
Rossetti-Shustak, Bernadette
Board book: $8.99
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $20.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.