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Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature

Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature Portraits of the Woman Artist

Hardback (01 Mar 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781611481068
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 261
Weight: 558g
Height: 244mm
Width: 167mm
Spine width: 20mm