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Spatial dynamics and female development in Victorian art and novels : creating a woman's space / Liana F. Piehler.
- Title
- Spatial dynamics and female development in Victorian art and novels : creating a woman's space / Liana F. Piehler.
- Author
- Piehler, Liana F., 1971-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, [2003], ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 164 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Spatial dynamics and imagery surface as distinctive and insightful elements for investigating female figures in Victorian art and literature. This book explores the concept that space can be a productive and creative realm - rather than merely an empty or confirming category - for personal development. Through discussing representative Victorian paintings of the mid- to late-1800s, as well as novels by women authors, Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels illustrates the ways visual and literary genres utilize space. This book sharpens our view of nineteenth-century women's perspectives on themselves, and recognizes connections between the visual and literary arts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Studies in nineteenth-century British literature, 1071-0124 ; v. 20
- Uniform Title
- Studies in nineteenth-century British literature ; v. 20.
- Subjects
- Bildungsromans
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Middlemarch
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 > Wives and daughters
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 > Villette
- Brookner, Anita > Hôtel du lac
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Women in literature
- Personal space in literature
- Space and time in literature
- Art, British > 19th century
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Creating a Woman's Space -- Ch. 1. Windows to Women's Worlds, Portals to their Imaginations: Visual Female Spaces in Victorian Art -- Ch. 2. Charlotte Bronte's Villette: Spatial Composition/Topography as Discovery and Narrative -- Ch. 3. Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters: Micro/Macro-cosmic Visions -- Ch. 4. George Elliot's Middlemarch: Dorothea Brooke's Visionary Spaces -- Conclusion: Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac: A Twentieth-Century Epilogue to a Nineteenth-Century Discussion.
- ISBN
- 0820462012 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002072973
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries