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Literary sisterhoods imagining women artists / by Heller, Deborah, 1939-

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth / by Astell, Ann W.

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Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender / by Feng, Aileen A.

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The Chekhovian Intertext : Dialogue with a Classic / by Parts, Lyudmila

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

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The Dangerous Lover : Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative / by Lutz, Deborah

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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

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A Thousand Words : Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism / by Hovey, Jaime

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Echoes of Desire : English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses / by Dubrow, Heather, 1945-

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The Elegiac Cityscape : Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments / by Welch, Tara S., 1967-

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Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / by Norris, Margot

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Writing for Immortality : Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America / by Boyd, Anne E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Solving the "old riddle of the Sphinx": discovering the self as artist -- "Prov[ing] Avis in the wrong": the lives of women artists -- "The crown and the thorn of gifted life": Imagining the women artist -- "Recognition is the thing": seeking the status of artist.…”
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Meaning and Interpretation : Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge / by Hagberg, Garry, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Forms of life and artistic practices -- Circumstances of significance -- Aspects of interpretation -- Interpretation and philosophical method.…”
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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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The Ethics of Swagger : Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 / by Hill, Michael D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Beloved and black prizewinning -- Authorized mentors : to Africa and back in The color purple and Middle passage -- A lesson before dying as style guide -- One to write on : communion without consensus in The women of Brewster Place and Jazz -- Hunting inheritance in Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville incident -- Measured achievement : Sent for you yesterday's and Philadelphia fire's failed artists.…”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.…”
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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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