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A studio of one's own : fictional women painters and the art of fiction
- Title
- A studio of one's own : fictional women painters and the art of fiction / Roberta White.
- Author
- White, Roberta, 1938-
- Publication
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR888.A74 W48 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 257 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Art and literature > English-speaking countries
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Women and literature > English-speaking countries
- American fiction > History and criticism
- Canadian fiction > History and criticism
- Women artists in literature
- Painters in literature
- Painting in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-254) and index.
- Contents
- Opening the portfolio : Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The painterly eye : Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Journey to the silent kingdom : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Figure and ground : the portrait painter in Iris Murdoch and Anna Banti -- Painters of the Irish coast : Jennifer Johnston and Deirdre Madden -- Northern light : Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye -- Drawn from life : Jill Paton Walsh's The serpentine cave -- Space, time, and a muse : Mary Gordon's Spending -- Servants, housewives, artists : A.S. Byatt, Tracy Chevalier, Carol Shields, and Kyoko Mori.
- ISBN
- 0838640729 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004029577
- OCLC
- ocm57349349
- SCSB-14510460
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library