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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... Gertrude as an independent , successful , professional artist . Gertrude's initial decision to paint is characteristic of the plot of the domestic novel as outlined by Baym . The death of her first husband and the abandonment of her ...
... Gertrude as an independent , successful , professional artist . Gertrude's initial decision to paint is characteristic of the plot of the domestic novel as outlined by Baym . The death of her first husband and the abandonment of her ...
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... Gertrude parodies the type of responses that a woman writer receives for writing a good book . In a lengthy account , Gertrude enumerates all the extraliterary motives for slamming the works of women writers . Behind the editor's ...
... Gertrude parodies the type of responses that a woman writer receives for writing a good book . In a lengthy account , Gertrude enumerates all the extraliterary motives for slamming the works of women writers . Behind the editor's ...
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... Gertrude's lack of self - consciousness regarding her own beauty also preempts the charge of feminine narcissism as the driv- ing force behind Gertrude's successful female reproductions . Gertrude not only serves as her own model , she ...
... Gertrude's lack of self - consciousness regarding her own beauty also preempts the charge of feminine narcissism as the driv- ing force behind Gertrude's successful female reproductions . Gertrude not only serves as her own model , she ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist Deborah Barker No preview available - 2000 |
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