Sunday, January 04, 2004


Britney Spears and Edith Wharton: an essay on Victorian chastity and brand-name virginity

"What separates Lily Bart [of Wharton's House of Mirth] and Britney Spears, characters who rely on social artifice and public knowledge of their sexual innocence for market value, is largely that Lily did not have a good agent."

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