Art and womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle writing : the fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880-1931 / by Catherine Delyfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delyfer, Catherine.

Series:

Gender and genre ; no. 6.

Gender and genre ; no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931--Criticism and interpretation.

Malet, Lucas.

Women in art.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

Summary:

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. Her novels reference contemporary paintings and her - often subversive - interpretations of them. The language of the visual arts is used as a literary device, disrupting the narrative structure and creating a deliberate stylistic tension. <br> This is the first book-length study of Malet's novels. Four works are discussed, spanning her writing career;<i> Mrs Lorimer</i> (1882), <i>The Wages of Sin</i> (1890), <i>The History of Sir Richard Calmady</i> (1901) and <i>The Survivors</i> (1923). Delyfer's analysis not only provides an insight into the development of Malet's unique style, but demonstrates their importance in the development of Modernist female writing.

Contents:

Sketching in black and white : Lucas Malet's poetics of the inchoate

Portraying the artist : ekphrasis and the art of the miniature

Looking at Velasquez : engendering deviance, enabling difference

Lucas Malet's iconoclasm : war, the death of the mother and the birth of the writer.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613291967

9781317323167

1317323165

9781315655802

1315655802

9781317323174

1317323173

9781283291965

1283291967

9781848931060

1848931069

OCLC:

756484841