Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York
by
Maureen E. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
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...