1st Edition
Fictions of Dissent Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century
By Sigrid Anderson Cordell
Copyright 2010
160 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
Introduction: Th e 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 Th e Aesthetics of Ownership in Women’s Stories
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Sigrid Anderson Cordell