Art and Womanhood in Fin-De-Siecle Writing: The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880-1931

ISBN-13: 9781138661455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Catherine Delyfer;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Lucas Malet is one of a number of forgotten female writers whose work bridges the gap between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Malet's writing was intrinsically linked to her passion for art. This is the first book-length study of Malet's novels.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Catherine Delyfer