Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing

The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880-1931
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84893-105-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Gender and Genre

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delyfer, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Delyfer