Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing: The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880-1931

by Catherine Delyfer

Overview

Lucas Malet is one of a number of forgotten female writers whose work bridges the gap between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Malet’s writing was intrinsically linked to her passion for art. This is the first book-length study of Malet’s novels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138661455
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Gender and Genre
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Sketching in Black and White: Lucas Malet’s Poetics of the Inchoate; Chapter 2 Portraying the Artist: Ekphrasis and the Art of the Miniature; Chapter 3 Looking at Velasquez: Engendering Deviance, Enabling Difference; Chapter 4 Lucas Malet’s Iconoclasm: War, the Death of the Mother, the Birth of the Writer; Afterword;