Title Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist / Linda M. Lewis

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Corinne. Sand, George, 1804-1876. Consuelo. SUBJECT Consuelo (Sand, George) fast Corinne (Staël, Madame de) fast Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women artists in literature. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- French influences. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Art and literature English literature English literature -- French influences English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Women artists in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0826264077 9780826264077

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