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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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's "New School" of Protestant art
- "I dedicate myself ... unreservedly to art": Augusta Jane Evans and Southern art
- Exorcising the popular woman writer from "The Domain of Pure Literature"
- Genius, gender, and the problem of mentorship
- The Civil War and the making of the "America of Art."
