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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... critics do not recognize Fern's aesthetic seriousness , her contemporaries did . Hawthorne expressed his admiration for Fern and singled her out as the exception to his famous " vituperation on female authors . " Furthermore , as I ...
... critics do not recognize Fern's aesthetic seriousness , her contemporaries did . Hawthorne expressed his admiration for Fern and singled her out as the exception to his famous " vituperation on female authors . " Furthermore , as I ...
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... criticism of the effects of the merchandising of American culture . Gertrude's warning about the commodification of ... critics and snobbish social climbers . As described by Gertrude , it is a decidedly male domain , which women enter ...
... criticism of the effects of the merchandising of American culture . Gertrude's warning about the commodification of ... critics and snobbish social climbers . As described by Gertrude , it is a decidedly male domain , which women enter ...
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... critic . Like Fern and Southworth before her , Wharton's greatest disdain is reserved not for the woman writer ( or for newly emerging mass forms of entertainment like the cin- ema ) but for the newspaper and magazine critics whose ...
... critic . Like Fern and Southworth before her , Wharton's greatest disdain is reserved not for the woman writer ( or for newly emerging mass forms of entertainment like the cin- ema ) but for the newspaper and magazine critics whose ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
Copyright | |
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