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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... York Mirror , who wrote an account of his visit to Niagara Falls while staying at the Clifton House , a fashionable hotel . Fern lampoons travel writers for their self - promotional practices and financially unscrupulous behavior of ...
... York Mirror , who wrote an account of his visit to Niagara Falls while staying at the Clifton House , a fashionable hotel . Fern lampoons travel writers for their self - promotional practices and financially unscrupulous behavior of ...
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... York : Mason Brothers , 1856 ) , 3-4 . Quotations in the text are to this edition and are abbreviated as RC . 2 . Baym , Woman's Fiction , 32 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . Ibid . It was at the height of their commercial success as ...
... York : Mason Brothers , 1856 ) , 3-4 . Quotations in the text are to this edition and are abbreviated as RC . 2 . Baym , Woman's Fiction , 32 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . Ibid . It was at the height of their commercial success as ...
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... York : Anchor Press , 1977 ) , 236–37 . Southworth's assessment of the literary trajectory of the lionized travel writer corresponds to Douglas's assessment of the male sentimental writers and their choice of travel writing to launch ...
... York : Anchor Press , 1977 ) , 236–37 . Southworth's assessment of the literary trajectory of the lionized travel writer corresponds to Douglas's assessment of the male sentimental writers and their choice of travel writing to launch ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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