Making the "America of art" : cultural nationalism and nineteenth-century women writers /
"Making the "America of Art" demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to moral and educational goals. Har...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "Making the "America of Art" demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to moral and educational goals. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Augusta Jane Evans drew on Ruskin to argue for the creation of a religiously based national aesthetic. In the postbellum years Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson continued the process in a series of writings that revolved around three central areas of concern: the place of the popular in the realm of high art; the role of the genius; and the legacy of the Civil War." "Sofer significantly revises the history of 19th-century American women's authorship by detailing the gradual process that produced women writers wholly identified with literary high culture at the century's end."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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| Item Description: | Project Muse Open Access Books Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814272916 0814272916 0814209831 9780814209837 |
