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An insightful look at representations of womenrsquo;s bodies and female authority.This work explores Edith Whartons career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially painting#151as a medium for revealing the ways that womens bodies have been represented (as passive; sexualized; infantalized; sickly; dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters; Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.Emily Orlando contends that while Whartons early work presents women enshrined by men through art; the middle and later fiction shifts the seat of power to women. From Lily Bart in The House of Mirth to Undine Spragg in The Custom of the Country and Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence; women evolve from victims to vital agents; securing for themselves a more empowering and satisfying relationship to art and to their own identities.Orlando also studies the lesser-known short stories and novels; revealing Whartonrsquo;s re-workings of texts by Browning; Poe; Balzac; George Eliot; Sir Joshua Reynolds; and; most significantly; Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts is the first extended study to examine the presence in Whartons fiction of the Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting of Rossetti and his muses; notably Elizabeth Siddall and Jane Morris. Wharton emerges as one of American literatures most gifted inter-textual realists; providing a vivid lens through which to view issues of power; resistance; and social change as they surface in American literature and culture.