Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist
Book Details
Author(s)Deborah Barker
PublisherBucknell Univ Pr
ISBN / ASIN0838754082
ISBN-139780838754085
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
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.


