Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932

The Artist Embodied

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist novels, American women writers challenge cultural, social, and legal systems that attempt to limit or diminish women’s embodied capabilities outside of the domestic. Women writers such as E.D.E.N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald use the artist novel to highlight the structural and material limitations that women artists face when attempting to achieve critical success while navigating inequitable marriages and social codes that restrict women’s mobility, education, and pursuit of vocation. These artist-rebel protagonists find that their very bodies demand an outlet to articulate desires that defy patriarchal rhetoric, and this demand becomes an artistic drive to express an embodied knowledge through artistic invention. Ultimately, these women writers empower their heroines to move beyond prescribed patriarchal identities in order to achieve autonomous subjectivity through their artistic development, challenging stereotypes surrounding gender, race, and ability and beginning to reshape cultural notions of marriage, motherhood, and artistry at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-06
Mått163 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor244
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793610348

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Chapter One: Individuality and the Embodiment of Inequality in E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Deserted WifeChapter Two: Disabling Marriage and the Woman Artist in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of AvisChapter Three: Embracing Fate: Artistry and Autonomy in Kate Chopin’s The AwakeningChapter Four: ‘That sensuous form’: Corporeal Artistic Creation in Willa Cather’s The Song of the LarkChapter Five: The Body at Play: Artistic Passing in Jessie Fauset’s Plum BunChapter Six: The Cult of Artistry in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save me the Waltz

In Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied, Rickie-Ann Legleitner makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on the female artist novel of development through compelling analyses of patriarchal America’s resistance to recognizing women artists as creators of high art. In five Künstleromane published between 1850 and 1932, Legleitner focuses on how her selected women writers reconfigure accepted domestic and sentimental themes into declarations of female individualism and autonomy that establish the female body’s generative capabilities not only for corporeal reproduction but for liberating cultural production. Complicating the analyses through tropes of race, ethnicity, class and ability, the study examines the female fictional artists negotiating private and public spaces, the home and the marketplace, much as the women writers who created them did.