Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Sketching in Black and White: Lucas Malet’s Poetics of the Inchoate; Chapter 2 Portraying the Artist: Ekphrasis and the Art of the Miniature; Chapter 3 Looking at Velasquez: Engendering Deviance, Enabling Difference; Chapter 4 Lucas Malet’s Iconoclasm: War, the Death of the Mother, the Birth of the Writer; Afterword;

'contributes meaningfully to the project of recovering worthy women writers from a pivotal period and enriches our understanding of the ways in which literary women have used tropes as part of a feminist rhetorical strategy.' Victorian Studies