Writing the Woman Artist : : Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture / / Suzanne W. Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Jones, Suzanne W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)

Writing the Woman Artist is a collection of essays that explore the ways women writers portray women painters, sculptors, writers, and performers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: H.D.'s Rescriptions of Joyce, Lawrence, and Pound -- 2. Power and Poetic Vocation in Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language -- 3. Lyric Voice and Sexual Difference in Elizabeth Bishop -- 4. The Pattern of Birds and Beasts: Willa Cather and Women's Art -- 5. Anita Brookner: Woman Writer as Reluctant Feminist -- 6. Incomplete Stories: Womanhood and Artistic Ambition in Daniel Deronda and Between the Acts -- 7. When Privilege Is No Protection: The Woman Artist in Quicksand and The House of Mirth -- 8. The Artist Manque in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis -- 9. From Shadow to Substance: The Empowerment of the Artist Figure in Lee Smith's Fiction -- 10. Through the Flower: Judy Chicago's Conflict Between a Woman-Centered Vision and the Male Artist Hero -- 11. The Alberta Trilogy: Cora Sandel's Norwegian Künstlerroman and American Feminist Literary Discourse -- 12. The Hysteric and the Mimic: Reading Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa Τ. -- 13. "Sisters in Arms": The Warrior Construct in Writings by Contemporary U.S. Women of Color -- 14. The Politics of the Woman Artist in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits -- 15. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall·. New System, New Morality -- 16. "Retreat with Honour": Mary Cholmondeley's Presentation of the New Woman Artist in Red Pottage -- 17. Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica -- 18. “I must not settle into a figure”: The Woman Artist in Virginia Woolf's Writings -- 19. Re-visioning Creativity: Audre Lorde's Refiguration of Eros as the Black Mother Within -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter