Book contents
- The New Edith Wharton Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Edith Wharton Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Self and Composition
- Part II International Wharton
- Part III Wharton on the Margins
- Part IV Sex and Gender Revisited
- Chapter 11 Women, Art, and the Natural World in Edith Wharton’s Works
- Chapter 12 Wharton and the Romance Plot
- Chapter 13 Masculine Modernity: Fathers, Sons, and Generational Absolution in Wharton’s Fiction
- Chapter 14 Wharton’s Wayward Girls
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - Women, Art, and the Natural World in Edith Wharton’s Works
from Part IV - Sex and Gender Revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2019
- The New Edith Wharton Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Edith Wharton Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Self and Composition
- Part II International Wharton
- Part III Wharton on the Margins
- Part IV Sex and Gender Revisited
- Chapter 11 Women, Art, and the Natural World in Edith Wharton’s Works
- Chapter 12 Wharton and the Romance Plot
- Chapter 13 Masculine Modernity: Fathers, Sons, and Generational Absolution in Wharton’s Fiction
- Chapter 14 Wharton’s Wayward Girls
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Edith Wharton’s representation of the natural world offers new insights about how nature and art inform female authority and women’s roles as cultural producers. Her distinctive representation of both the bonds and disconnections between art or culture and nature suggests women’s continuity with nature and also reveals how nature influences the relationship between women and culture through institutional power dynamics and ideologies of domination. An ecocritical approach to Wharton’s work illuminates how her deep knowledge of art coincided with her representation of the natural world and provides new insights into her understanding of women’s lives as both enhanced and limited due to their relationship to nature.
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