Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman ArtistUniversity of Missouri Press, 2003 - 278 sider By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Mrs. Humphry Ward. She argues that while the male Romantic artist saw himself as god and hero, the woman of genius lacked a guiding myth until Germaine de Staël and George Sand created one. The protagonists of Staël's Corinne and Sand's Consuelo combine attributes of the goddess Athena, the Virgin Mary, Virgil's Sibyl, and Dante's Beatrice. Lewis illustrates how the resulting Corinne/Consuelo effect is exhibited in scores of English artist-as-heroine narratives, particularly in the works of these four prominent writers who most consciously and elaborately allude to the French literary matriarchs. In her initial chapter, Lewis explains Corinne's gift as "l'enthousiasme" and Consuelo's as "la flamme sacrée." Corinne uses her influence as a political Sibyl to enter the debates of the Napoleonic era; Consuelo employs her sacred fire as a divine Sophia to indict injustice throughout Europe. Subsequent chapters examine the public and private voices of the Sibyls and Sophias of Victorian fiction, as well as the degree to which their gift demands service to art, to God, and to humankind. The closing chapter studies the waning influence of Staël and Sand in the fin-de-siècle "New Woman" novel. The core of Lewis's book is its treatment of the Victorian author and her feminine aesthetics. In each chapter Lewis uncovers the references to Corinne and Consuelo--subtle or overt, serious or facetious--and reveals the resulting tension when an artist invokes a foremother but avoids merging with the mother whom she emulates. The methodology of this bookincludes myth criticism, feminist commentary, and psychoanalytic theory, but its strength lies in Lewis's close reading of the intertextuality of ten literary works. Exploring a connection between French and English literature and providing fresh insight, Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist makes a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century feminism. |
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... novel : She boldly announces her indebtedness to Corinne when the " English " sister , an allusion to Staël's Lucile , reads Staël's Corinne and the narrator remarks that a young girl's first reading of Corinne is an epoch a woman never ...
... novel : She boldly announces her indebtedness to Corinne when the " English " sister , an allusion to Staël's Lucile , reads Staël's Corinne and the narrator remarks that a young girl's first reading of Corinne is an epoch a woman never ...
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... novels . The Violinist and the Medusa The protagonist of Robert Elsmere , Ward's most successful novel , is an Oxford intellectual , Anglican clergyman , and idealist who turns activist , doubter , apos- tate , and finally founder of a ...
... novels . The Violinist and the Medusa The protagonist of Robert Elsmere , Ward's most successful novel , is an Oxford intellectual , Anglican clergyman , and idealist who turns activist , doubter , apos- tate , and finally founder of a ...
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... novel , The Story of a Modern Woman , was pub- lished the same year as Caird's novel , and it also features a failed artist . In Mary Erle's case twice failed - first as painter , second as novelist . Like Jewsbury's Bian- ca , Barrett ...
... novel , The Story of a Modern Woman , was pub- lished the same year as Caird's novel , and it also features a failed artist . In Mary Erle's case twice failed - first as painter , second as novelist . Like Jewsbury's Bian- ca , Barrett ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Staëls Corinne and Sands Consuelo | 13 |
Art and Work as Vocation | 64 |
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actress Albert Alcharisi Anzoleto Armgart Aurora Leigh Barrett Browning's Beatrice beauty become Bianca career Carlyle Caterina character Consuelo Corinne and Consuelo Corinne's creative Daniel Deronda Dante daughter David Grieve death depict Dinah divine Dorothea Elise Elizabeth Barrett Browning England English Erinna father female artist fictional French gaze genius George Eliot George Sand Geraldine Jewsbury Germaine de Staël gift Gilfil's goddess Gwendolen Half Sisters heroine Humphry Ward husband Isabel Italy Jane Jewsbury's Klesmer Künstlerroman Lady Lélia literary lover Lucile Lucrezia Madonna Maggie male Marian Marian Withers marriage marry Mary Medusa Mirah Miss Bretherton moral mother muse myth Nelvil notes novel novelist painter passion performance poet political Porpora portrait prophetess Psyche Robert Elsmere Romney Romola Rose Rudolstadt Sand's Consuelo says sexual Sibyl silenced singer soul spiritual Staël's Corinne suffering talent Victorian Virgin voice Ward's wife Wisdom woman artist Woman novels women writes young
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