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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lewis, Linda M., 1942- Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606958982 Online version: Lewis, Linda M., 1942- Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003 (OCoLC)607862863 |
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| Named Person: | Staël, Madame de; George Sand; Staël, Madame de; George Sand; Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein; George Sand |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda M Lewis |
| ISBN: | 082621455X 9780826214553 |
| OCLC Number: | 51153140 |
| Description: | xii, 278 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Secular Sibyl and Divine Sophia: Stail's Corinne and Sand's Consuelo -- Geraldine Jewsbury: Art and Work as Vocation -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and the Labors of Psyche -- The Erinna Complex and George Eliot's Female Artists -- Mrs. Humphry (Mary) Ward and the Artist as Medusa -- The New Woman Kiinstlerroman. |
| Responsibility: | Linda M. Lewis. |
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Abstract:
"By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Mrs. Humphry Ward. She argues that while the male Romantic artist saw himself as god and hero, the woman of genius lacked a guiding myth until Germaine de Stael and George Sand created one. The protagonists of Stael's Corinne and Sand's Consuelo combine attributes of the goddess Athena, the Virgin Mary, Virgil's Sibyl, and Dante's Beatrice. Lewis illustrates how the resulting Corinne/Consuelo effect is exhibited in scores of English artist-as-heroine narratives, particularly in the works of these four prominent writers who most consciously and elaborately allude to the French literary matriarchs." "Exploring a connection between French and English literature and providing fresh insight, Germaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist makes a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century feminism."--Jacket.
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Related Subjects:(22)
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women artists in literature.
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Staël, -- Madame de -- (Anne-Louise-Germaine), -- 1766-1817. -- Corinne.
- Sand, George, -- 1804-1876. -- Consuelo.
- English literature -- French influences.
- Femmes artistes dans la littérature.
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Art et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature anglaise -- Influence française.
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique.
- Vrouwelijke auteurs.
- Engels.
- Victoriaanse tijd.
- Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine de.
- Sand, George.
- Frauenliteratur.
- Künstlerin (Motiv)
- Englisch.

