LEADER 04788nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910968515903321 005 20251117120009.0 010 $a0-8262-6407-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003304 035 $a(OCoLC)607862863 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048784 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000162278 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177474 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162278 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201027 035 $a(PQKB)11626050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570781 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048784 035 $a(OCoLC)56476654 035 $a(BIP)8029413 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003304 100 $a20021122d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGermaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist /$fLinda M. Lewis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8262-1455-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Secular Sibyl and Divine Sophia -- 2 Geraldine Jewsbury -- 3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and the Labors of Psyche -- 4 The Erinna Complex and George Eliot's Female Artists -- 5 Mrs. Humphry (Mary) Ward and the Artist as Medusa -- 6 The New Woman Kunstlerroman -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aBy 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 Stael and George Sand created one. The protagonists of Stael'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 sacree . " 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 Stael and Sand in the fin-de-siecle "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 Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist makes a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century feminism. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen artists in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArt and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xFrench influences 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen artists in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aArt and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xFrench influences. 676 $a809.3/93527 700 $aLewis$b Linda M.$f1942-$01809260 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968515903321 996 $aGermaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist$94481512 997 $aUNINA