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Author Delyfer, Catherine

Title Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing : the Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880-1931
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (219 pages)
Series Gender and Genre
Gender and genre.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Dedication; Introduction; 1 Sketching in Black and White: Lucas Malet's Poetics of the Inchoate; 2 Portraying the Artist: Ekphrasis and the Art of the Miniature; 3 Looking at Velasquez: Engendering Deviance, Enabling Difference; 4 Lucas Malet's Iconoclasm: War, the Death of the Mother and the Birth of the Writer; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931 fast
Subject Women in art.
Women in literature.
Women in art
Women in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317323174
1317323173