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Literary sisterhoods : imagining women artists / Deborah Heller.

Title: Literary sisterhoods : imagining women artists / Deborah Heller.
Author: Heller, Deborah, 1939-
Publication: Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

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Description

182 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Focusing on literary works by Mme de Stael, George Eliot, Anna Banti, Alice Munro, and Grace Paley, Deborah Heller examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist."--Jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-178) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : women artists, exceptional and representative lives -- Tragedy, sisterhood and revenge : Mme de Staël's Corinne or Italy -- A voice from the margins : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- History, art, and fiction : Anna Banti's Artemisia -- Getting loose : women and narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my youth -- The work of faith in the stories of Grace Paley.

ISBN

0773528229

LCCN

^^2006276080

OCLC

56319538
SCSB-12697486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library