Writing for immortality : women and the emergence of high literary culture in America / Anne E. Boyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Anne E., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888--Criticism and interpretation.

Alcott, Louisa May.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911--Criticism and interpretation.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart.

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902--Criticism and interpretation.

Stoddard, Elizabeth.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894.

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Canon (Literature).

United States--Intellectual life--1865-1918.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Summary:

"An innovative and carefully-researched analysis of the trajectory of female authorship in the nineteenth-century United States. Boyd's study of the careers, cultural contexts, and aspirations of Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson is likely to stand as a solid historicist achievement for some time to come." -- Lawrence Buell, Harvard University

Contents:

1 Solving the "old riddle of the Sphinx": Discovering the Self as Artist 12

2 "Prov[ing] Avis in the Wrong": The Lives of Women Artists 62

3 "The crown and the thorn of gifted life": Imagining the Woman Artist 126

4 "Recognition is the thing": Seeking the Status of Artist 184

Conclusion: The Question of Immortality 234.

Notes:

Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0801878756

OCLC:

53002596