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The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti (Hardcover)
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The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female
authors of the nineteenth century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the
influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May
Alcott's and Christina Rossetti's visions of female creativity. In
the early stages of the authors' careers, their artistic
developments were associated with their patrilineal connections to
two artistic movements that shaped the course of American and
British history: the Transcendentalists and Pre-Raphaelites. Flint
uncovers the authors' rejections of the individualistic outlooks of
these movements, demonstrating that Alcott and Rossetti affiliated
themselves with their mothers and sisters' religious faith.
Applying the methodological framework of women's mysticism, Flint
reveals that Alcott's and Rossetti's religious beliefs were shaped
by the devotional practices and life-writing texts of their
matrilineal communities. Here, the authors' iconic portrayals of
female artists are examined in light of the examples of their
mothers and sisters for the first time. Flint recovers a number of
unpublished life-writings, including commonplace albums and
juvenile newspapers, introducing readers to early versions of the
authors' iconic works. These recovered texts indicate that Alcott
and Rossetti portrayed the female artist as a mouthpiece for a
wider community of women committed to social justice and divine
communion. By drawing attention to the parallels in the authors'
familial affiliations and religious beliefs, Flint recuperates a
tradition of nineteenth-century women's mysticism that departs from
the individualistic models of male literary traditions to locate
female empowerment in gynocentric relationships dedicated to
achieving a shared revelation of God.
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