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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... cultural mediator may help to explain the negative reaction to the African - American artist heroines in Frances Harper's lola Leroy and Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun . Harper and Fauset were condemned by critics for functioning as “ mediators ...
... cultural mediator may help to explain the negative reaction to the African - American artist heroines in Frances Harper's lola Leroy and Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun . Harper and Fauset were condemned by critics for functioning as “ mediators ...
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... cultural mediators who were able to " convert " the uneducated , immi- grant masses into the image of the American male elite . In her depiction of Wakefield's career , Southworth dramatizes the danger of such cultural reproduction ...
... cultural mediators who were able to " convert " the uneducated , immi- grant masses into the image of the American male elite . In her depiction of Wakefield's career , Southworth dramatizes the danger of such cultural reproduction ...
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... cultural striving of middle - class northerners . Citing the shifts in ... culture and whiteness are synonymous for Angela , it is imperative that she " be ... mediators : those of teacher or portrait painter . " [ S ] he hated the idea ...
... cultural striving of middle - class northerners . Citing the shifts in ... culture and whiteness are synonymous for Angela , it is imperative that she " be ... mediators : those of teacher or portrait painter . " [ S ] he hated the idea ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
1 | 19 |
Cultural Reproduction and the Female Copyist | 27 |
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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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