Book Description
Spatial dynamics and imagery surface as distinctive and insightful elements for investigating female figures in Victorian art and literature. This book explores the concept that space can be a productive and creative realm, rather than merely an empty or confining category, for personal development. Through discussing representative Victorian paintings of the mid- to late-1800s, as well as novels by women authors, Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels illustrates the ways visual and literary genres utilize space. This book sharpens our view of nineteenth-century women’s perspectives on themselves, and recognizes connections between the visual and literary arts.
Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels: Creating a Woman's Space FROM THE PUBLISHER
Spatial dynamics and imagery surface as distinctive and insightful elements for investigating female figures in Victorian art and literature. This book explores the concept that space can be a productive and creative realm - rather than merely an empty or confirming category - for personal development. Through discussing representative Victorian paintings of the mid- to late-1800s, as well as novels by women authors, Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels illustrates the ways visual and literary genres utilize space. This book sharpens our view of nineteenth-century women's perspectives on themselves, and recognizes connections between the visual and literary arts.
SYNOPSIS
Piehler (English, Drew U., Madison, New Jersey), in a revision of her dissertation (also at Drew U.), attempts a cross- disciplinary critique of Victorian expressions in art and literature of women's physical place in the world. The first chapter contains a short commentary on the representation of women's space in paintings by Edward Burne Jones, Augustus Leopold, Frederick Leighton, and others. The same theme is then examined in three novels: Charlotte Brönte's Villette, Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, and George Eliot's Middlemarch. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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