Portraits of the artist as a young woman : painting and the novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer.
Published / Created:
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Women in the studio: representing professional identity -- "Why are you no longer my brothers?" The Fraternité des Arts and the female artist in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's L'atelier d'un peintre -- Sisterhood in/as the studio: Anna Mary Howitt's sisters in art -- Visualizing imagined communities: lessons of the female artist in Staël, Owenson, and Lescot -- Revolutionary identities: painting and resistance in Owenson's The princess; or the beguine -- Angélique Arnaud's Clémence: art, revolution, and Saint-Simonianism -- Margaret Gillies and the miniature: portraits of radical engagement -- Brontë's portraits of romantic resistance: The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- From margin to center: Sand's portraits of difference.
Subject Terms:
Women artists -- France -- History -- 19th century. | Women artists -- England -- History -- 19th century. | Women authors, French -- 19th century. | Women authors, English -- 19th century.