Portraits of the artist as a young woman
Subtitle: painting and the novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860
By: Alexandra K. Wettlaufer
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780814211458; 9780814292440
Subjects: Women artists; French Women authors; English Women authors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in the studio: representing professional identity; title: "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; title: Sisterhood in/as the studio: Anna Mary Howitt's sisters in art; title: Visualizing imagined communities: lessons of the female artist in Staël, Owenson, and Lescot; title: Revolutionary identities: painting and resistance in Owenson's The princess; or the beguine; title: Angélique Arnaud's Clémence: art, revolution, and Saint-Simonianism; title: Margaret Gillies and the miniature: portraits of radical engagement; title: Brontë's portraits of romantic resistance: The tenant of Wildfell Hall; title: From margin to center: Sand's portraits of difference.