... and careless as exemplified when she talked to Victor, she "laugh(s) and banter(s) him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved."" Rejecting the time-honored perception of the women being the romantic fixation, Edna instead chooses to seek out romantic partners herself, contrary to the popular belief of men being the ones that court and pursue ... no other ambition."" In respect to attending her sister's wedding, Edna proclaims that "a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth-, declaring her disgust for the traditional Victorian se...

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... approach of art history as mystification. Concepts of aesthetics - and in particular those of composition - he argues, have inserted themselves between spectators and paintings to obscure and obstruct any immediate perception of the social content of pictures. In this way, terms as, for example, "spatial division", "rhythmical arrangement" and "colour contrast" are introduced in an attempt to account for the intensity ... technique and art form and its phenomenal rise in the 15th century by the need of an emerging class of mercantile capitalists, and later the landed gentry, to confirm ...

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