Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932
The Artist Embodied
Rickie-Ann Legleitner
Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932
The Artist Embodied
Rickie-Ann Legleitner
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Description
The Artist Embodied examines how the coming-of-age-of-an-artist genre evolved from 1850-1932 in works by American women writers. Specifically, it analyzes how these authors contest patriarchy, engage with tropes of gender, race, and disability, and assert the validity of art created by women artists.
In Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932: The Artist Embodied, Rickie-Ann Legleitner makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on the female artist novel of development through compelling analyses of patriarchal America’s resistance to recognizing women artists as creators of high art. In five Künstleromane published between 1850 and 1932, Legleitner focuses on how her selected women writers reconfigure accepted domestic and sentimental themes into declarations of female individualism and autonomy that establish the female body’s generative capabilities not only for corporeal reproduction but for liberating cultural production. Complicating the analyses through tropes of race, ethnicity, class and ability, the study examines the female fictional artists negotiating private and public spaces, the home and the marketplace, much as the women writers who created them did.
Rickie-Ann Legleitner is assistant professor of English and director of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin, Stout.