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Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist

Author: Linda M Lewis
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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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
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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"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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