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Author Boyd, Anne E., 1969-

Title Writing for immortality : women and the emergence of high literary culture in America / Anne E. Boyd
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 305 pages)
Contents Solving the "old riddle of the Sphinx": discovering the self as artist -- "Prov[ing] Avis in the wrong": the lives of women artists -- "The crown and the thorn of gifted life": Imagining the women artist -- "Recognition is the thing": seeking the status of artist
Summary "Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four nineteenth-century American women who sought recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd examines how these authors challenged the masculine connotation of "artist" and struggled to place themselves in the literary pantheon. Redrawing the boundaries between male and female literary spheres and between American and British literary traditions, Boyd shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women authors and instead drew their inspiration from the most accomplished "literary" figures of their day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot." "Placing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about genius and the American artist, Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts encouraged these women, they nonetheless faced lingering prejudices."--Jacket
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index
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Subject Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 fast
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 fast
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902 fast
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 fast
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Canon (Literature)
American literature
American literature -- Women authors
Canon (Literature)
Intellectual life
Women and literature
Frauenliteratur
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140366
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003019050
ISBN 9781421428031
1421428032
1421401770
9781421401775