Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors Edith Wharton and Material Culture【電子書籍】[ Jamie Barlowe ]

＜p＞In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design, and decoration serve as important commentaries on her vision of the literary arts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Decoration of Houses＜/em＞ she notes that furniture and bric-?-brac are often crowded into a room in order to compensate for a "lack of architectural composition in the treatment of the walls," and that unless an ornamental object "adequately expresses an artistic conception" it is better removed from the room. These aesthetic standards apply equally to her construction of narratives and are evidence of a sensibility that counters typical understandings of Wharton as a novelist of manners a．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る