1st Edition
Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931
By Catherine Delyfer
Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
Catherine Delyfer
