Title Literary sisterhoods : imagining women artists / Deborah Heller

Published Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : women artists, exceptional and representative lives -- Tragedy, sisterhood and revenge : Mme de Staël's Corinne or Italy -- A voice from the margins : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- History, art, and fiction : Anna Banti's Artemisia -- Getting loose : women and narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my youth -- The work of faith in the stories of Grace Paley Summary "Focusing on literary works by Mme de Stael, George Eliot, Anna Banti, Alice Munro, and Grace Paley, Deborah Heller examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature. Women artists in literature. Women authors in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors. Fiction Fiction -- Women authors Women and literature Women artists in literature Women authors in literature Frauenliteratur Künstlerin Motiv Schriftstellerin Motiv Femmes et litťrature. Femmes artistes dans la littérature. Écrivaines dans la littérature. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773572423 0773572422 9786612863103 6612863102

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