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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH and the Desert of the Real: Edith Wharton and Hyperreality
Ist Teil von
The Explicator, 2015-10, Vol.73 (4), p.316-319
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Recent focus on Edith Wharton's aesthetic interests has led to wider appreciation of the author's use of space and material objects in "The House of Mirth" (1905). This essay builds on these insights by proposing that "The House of Mirth" dramatizes Lily Bart's discovery of virtual realities woven out of the messaging contained in environments and modern media technologies in an increasingly wired world. She argues that Lily Bart, an expert manipulator, becomes an unlikely champion for objective truth when she discovers the extent of her set's detachment from objective reality.