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Author:

White, Roberta, 1938-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

257 p. ; 24 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.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780838640722 (alk. paper)
0838640729 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57349349

LCCN:

2004029577

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)