Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century / Edition 1

by Sigrid Anderson Cordell

Overview

Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848930230
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Series:	Gender and Genre , #4
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Muse’s Revenge 1 ‘A Beautiful Translation from a Very Imperfect Original’: Mabel Wotton, Aestheticism and the Dilemma of Literary Borrowing 2 Vernon Lee and the Aesthetic Subject 3 Edith Wharton and the Artist as Connoisseur 4 The Aesthetics of Ownership in Women’s Stories