Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932
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Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932

The Artist Embodied

  1. 245 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932

The Artist Embodied

About this book

In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist novels, American women writers challenge cultural, social, and legal systems that attempt to limit or diminish women's embodied capabilities outside of the domestic. Women writers such as E.D.E.N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald use the artist novel to highlight the structural and material limitations that women artists face when attempting to achieve critical success while navigating inequitable marriages and social codes that restrict women's mobility, education, and pursuit of vocation. These artist-rebel protagonists find that their very bodies demand an outlet to articulate desires that defy patriarchal rhetoric, and this demand becomes an artistic drive to express an embodied knowledge through artistic invention. Ultimately, these women writers empower their heroines to move beyond prescribed patriarchal identities in order to achieve autonomous subjectivity through their artistic development, challenging stereotypes surrounding gender, race, and ability and beginning to reshape cultural notions of marriage, motherhood, and artistry at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Statement on Language and Identity
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Individuality and the Embodiment of Inequality in E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Deserted Wife
  10. Chapter 2: Disabling Marriage and the Woman Artist in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis
  11. Chapter 3: Embracing Fate: Artistry and Autonomy in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
  12. Chapter 4: “That Sensuous Form”: Corporeal Artistic Creation in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark
  13. Chapter 5: The Body at Play: Artistic Passing in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun
  14. Chapter 6: The Cult of Artistry in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz
  15. Epilogue
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index
  18. About the Author