The Decoration of Houses
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2024
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-0473-0 (ISBN)
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-0473-0 (ISBN)
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Co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897) brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. This annotated edition includes a comprehensive introduction that provides relevant biographical information on Wharton, as well as her literary work.
Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today. The book crystallizes what Wharton found to be troubling in Americans’ enthusiasm for ostentation at the turn of the twentieth century—the late Victorian equivalent of the modern "McMansion."
This annotated edition includes a comprehensive introduction that provides relevant biographical information on Wharton, as well as her literary work and how her perspectives on homeownership and décor informed her writing. The reproduction of the book’s original illustrations alongside new annotations allows readers to visualize how Wharton’s aesthetic preferences informed her writing, life, and charitable works. Valuable to Wharton scholars as well as students of design, The Decoration of Houses presents a definitive look at the tastes of a literary icon.
Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today. The book crystallizes what Wharton found to be troubling in Americans’ enthusiasm for ostentation at the turn of the twentieth century—the late Victorian equivalent of the modern "McMansion."
This annotated edition includes a comprehensive introduction that provides relevant biographical information on Wharton, as well as her literary work and how her perspectives on homeownership and décor informed her writing. The reproduction of the book’s original illustrations alongside new annotations allows readers to visualize how Wharton’s aesthetic preferences informed her writing, life, and charitable works. Valuable to Wharton scholars as well as students of design, The Decoration of Houses presents a definitive look at the tastes of a literary icon.
Emily J. Orlando is professor of English and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts, editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, and co-editor of Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New York State Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 65 black and white |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8156-0473-4 / 0815604734 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8156-0473-0 / 9780815604730 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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