Research Catalog

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Description

1. 257 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
2. Art and literature > English-speaking countries
3. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
4. Women and literature > English-speaking countries
5. American fiction > History and criticism
6. Canadian fiction > History and criticism
7. Women artists in literature
8. Painters in literature
9. Painting in literature

Contents

1. Introduction : Unfinished work : the dialogue of the novelist and the painter -- 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.

Call number

1. JFE 05-7869

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-254) and index.

Author

1. White, Roberta, 1938-

Title

1. A studio of one's own : fictional women painters and the art of fiction / Roberta White.

Imprint

1. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-254) and index.

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1. Table of contents

LCCN

1. 2004029577

ISBN

1. 0838640729 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 05-7869