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- W177706818 abstract "This study examines the decorative interior in Henry James’s fiction:its representation, its function, its existence as a nascent cultural and economicphenomenon. It also explores Edith Wharton’s deployment of interiors withinher writing, as a friend and contemporary of James with a professional interest inarchitecture and interior design. Other writers on aesthetics, design, or decorative artare also considered: William Morris and John Ruskin (Chapter One), Oscar Wilde(Chapter Two). A study of the decorative interior in James is inseparable from otherwide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions. I discuss the growth of departmentstores and shopping, along with changing gender roles at the end of the nineteenthcentury with reference to The Bostonians and Summer in Chapter Three. I consider therepresentation of domesticity, and the house as a psychological and epistemologicalspace in What Maisie Knew (Chapter Four). In Chapter Five I explore surfaces, bothtextual and decorative, in The House of Mirth and The Ambassadors, while in the finalchapter I consider modernism and James’s absent interiors in “The Beast in the Jungle”,“The Great Good Place” and The American Scene. In this study I scrutinise both thedecorative objects (sofas, carpets) and interior architectural structures (doors, staircases)which comprise James’s and Wharton’s fictional interiors. Bringing the work of spatialtheorists (Bachelard, Lefebvre), anthropologists (Daniel Miller), and phenomenologicalthinkers (Merleau-Ponty), to bear on James’s and Wharton’s imagined spaces will Ihope contribute to the ongoing critical consideration of materialism and materialitywithin James’s writing. Exploring the powerful connectivity between “things” andtext exposes Jamesian objects as increasingly fragile, invisible and de-categorised. Hisfictional imperative towards interiority intensified over time, producing imagined spacesin which objects become ciphers for the incomplete, the marginal, and the deferred." @default.
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- W177706818 title "Modern passions: Henry James, Edith Wharton and the decorative interior" @default.
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