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Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932 - The Artist Embodied (Hardcover)
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Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932 - The Artist Embodied (Hardcover)
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From 1850-1932, American women artists found their bodies and
desires narrowly defined by cultural, social, and legal patriarchal
systems. Women were typically depicted as "abnormal" for harboring
desires that lay outside of motherhood, yet female coming-of-age
stories complicate this rhetoric by revealing how the roles of wife
and mother are themselves "abnormal" in their self-sacrificial
demands. The Artist Embodied: The Development of Women Artists in
American Literature from 1850-1940 contends that in the female
Kunstlerromane, or artist novels, the protagonist's body demands an
outlet to articulate desires that defy restricting patriarchal
rhetoric. This demand becomes an artistic drive to express an
embodied knowledge in a new language of artistic invention that
establishes the female body as generative beyond corporeal
reproduction.This book explores the development of the female
artist in American literature by women writers, including the work
of E.D.E.N Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa
Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Each of these authors
depicts the coming-of-age of women artists to assert the legitimacy
of their art, pushing back against the erroneous notion that women
are, at best, talented hobbyists, and, at worst, a scribbling mob
drawing attention away from more substantial works by critically
acclaimed male authors.
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