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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... color illustrates how the term " color " signified female sexuality in nineteenth- century discourse . Chopin's Miss Mayblunt is indicative of Clarke's fear of the sterile intellectual woman who no longer inspires artists but who ...
... color illustrates how the term " color " signified female sexuality in nineteenth- century discourse . Chopin's Miss Mayblunt is indicative of Clarke's fear of the sterile intellectual woman who no longer inspires artists but who ...
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... color , Clarke comes dangerously close to undermining his own call for racial purity and the dominance of the white , Nordic race . For Clarke , “ color ” is a metaphor for the sexuality that he desires and that he associates with ...
... color , Clarke comes dangerously close to undermining his own call for racial purity and the dominance of the white , Nordic race . For Clarke , “ color ” is a metaphor for the sexuality that he desires and that he associates with ...
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... color - they failed in their roles as muses and mothers , or because through their ability to paint in color and / or embody color they led astray an uncultured public . Hawthorne's depiction of Miriam , the original woman artist , fits ...
... color - they failed in their roles as muses and mothers , or because through their ability to paint in color and / or embody color they led astray an uncultured public . Hawthorne's depiction of Miriam , the original woman artist , fits ...
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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