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050 00 $aPS217.W64$bB69 2004
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100 1 $aBoyd, Anne E.,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003048804
245 10 $aWriting for immortality :$bwomen and the emergence of high literary culture in America /$cAnne E. Boyd.
260 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2004.
300 $ax, 305 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-294) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : new ambitions -- $g1.$tSolving the "old riddle of the Sphinx" : discovering the self as artist -- $g2.$t"Prov[ing] Avis in the wrong" : the lives of women artists -- $g3.$t"The crown and the thorn of gifted life" : imagining the woman artist -- $g4.$t"Recognition is the thing" : seeking the status of artist -- $tConclusion : the question of immortality.
520 1 $a"Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four nineteenth-century American women who sought recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd examines how these authors challenged the masculine connotation of "artist" and struggled to place themselves in the literary pantheon. Redrawing the boundaries between male and female literary spheres and between American and British literary traditions, Boyd shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women authors and instead drew their inspiration from the most accomplished "literary" figures of their day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot." "Placing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about genius and the American artist, Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts encouraged these women, they nonetheless faced lingering prejudices."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aAlcott, Louisa May,$d1832-1888$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aPhelps, Elizabeth Stuart,$d1844-1911$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aStoddard, Elizabeth,$d1823-1902$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aWoolson, Constance Fenimore,$d1840-1894$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113610
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aCanon (Literature)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019643
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y1865-1918.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
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