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Reframing Allegory in Work by American Women Painters of the Gilded Age: Six Case Studies book cover

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Reframing Allegory in Work by American Women Painters of the Gilded Age Six Case Studies

By Lisa N. Peters Copyright 2027
198 Pages 20 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 20 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Addressing paintings depicting idealized and allegorical female figures, this book presents a series of six case studies of US women artists. Lisa N. Peters posits that the indirectness and subterfuge used in this type of work afforded nineteenth-century US women a means of self-expression and self-reflection, not otherwise easily available. The six case studies cover the artists Lilly... Read more

1. Lilly Martin Spencer: The “Sublime, Noble, Heroick, Touching, and Beautiful” in Truth Unveiling Falsehood (ca. 1869)  2. Ella Ferris Pell: Moral Reckoning and History’s Distortions of Women in Salome (1890)  3. Mary Lizzie Macomber: Symbolism and Allegorical Ontology in Memory Comforting Sorrow (1901–5)  4. Edith Mitchill Prellwitz: “Maledictions on My Women’s Fate” in Hagar (1894), Legend (1895), Le Rouet d’Omphale (ca. 1902), and Elegy (1908)  5. Louise Howland King Cox: Challenging Gendered Representation in The Lotos Eaters (1887), A Swan Song (1891), A Rondel (1892), and The Fates (1894)  6. Ella Condie Lamb: Reclaiming Female Spiritual and Reproductive Authority in Advent Angel (1889) and Allegories of Female Resilience

Biography

Lisa N. Peters is an independent scholar specializing in American art. She received her PhD in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Peters has written and lectured on numerous American art topics from the colonial era to the present.

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