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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... beauty could be made good.26 Therefore , those who are interested in Egyptian culture are free from the charge of paganism . They can appreciate it from the culturally superior position of a European Christian . The Sphinx represented ...
... beauty could be made good.26 Therefore , those who are interested in Egyptian culture are free from the charge of paganism . They can appreciate it from the culturally superior position of a European Christian . The Sphinx represented ...
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... beauty to her art and being her own model , since a better it would be hard to find ” ( D & P , 392 ) . But Diana also functions as a model to Percy , who " staunchly tried to follow her example in spite of many obstacles , her winsome ...
... beauty to her art and being her own model , since a better it would be hard to find ” ( D & P , 392 ) . But Diana also functions as a model to Percy , who " staunchly tried to follow her example in spite of many obstacles , her winsome ...
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... beauty is particularly difficult to capture , for we are told that " there was nothing subtle or hidden about [ Adèle's ] charms ; her beauty was all there , flaming and apparent " ( The Awakening , 10 ) . And further to suggest that ...
... beauty is particularly difficult to capture , for we are told that " there was nothing subtle or hidden about [ Adèle's ] charms ; her beauty was all there , flaming and apparent " ( The Awakening , 10 ) . And further to suggest that ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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