Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman ArtistThis study demonstrates how popular women writers used the female visual artist as their alter ego to renegotiate the boundaries between high and low culture. The figure of the professional woman painter allowed women writers to critique the dominant aesthetic and scientific theories that categorized women and an ethnically configured lower class as artistically and intellectually inferior to an elite, male-defined figure of the Romantic artist-as-genius. Illustrated. |
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... Diana and Persis , Alcott en- visions her own practical application of transcendental thought as a cor- rective to her father's failed utopian community , which she parodied in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ) . Whereas in Bronson ...
... Diana and Persis , Alcott en- visions her own practical application of transcendental thought as a cor- rective to her father's failed utopian community , which she parodied in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ) . Whereas in Bronson ...
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... She was particularly concerned with the everyday details and expenses involved in studying abroad , and it is this sense of the daily life of the American woman artist abroad that Al- cott captures in Diana and Persis . ' The ability of ...
... She was particularly concerned with the everyday details and expenses involved in studying abroad , and it is this sense of the daily life of the American woman artist abroad that Al- cott captures in Diana and Persis . ' The ability of ...
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... Diana and Persis , Alcott's attempt to overcome her rivalry with May and to create two independent female artists , was never fin- ished because of May's death . Explaining why she was not writing at present , Alcott , in a letter to ...
... Diana and Persis , Alcott's attempt to overcome her rivalry with May and to create two independent female artists , was never fin- ished because of May's death . Explaining why she was not writing at present , Alcott , in a letter to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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