Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415905664)

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.

Author: Maureen E. Montgomery
ISBN-10: 0415905664
ISBN-13: 9780415905664
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/06/1998
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.98w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/06/1998 pg. 65
New York Times 07/19/1998 pg. 19