Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and PaintingsFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995 - 187 sivua Author Michael Cohen has found in nineteenth-century British paintings and novels depicting sisters a persistent attempt to subvert a stereotypical construction of women - that which neatly divides all women into either whores or "respectable" women. In many paintings and novels, a female transformation of heroic myth opposes the "necessary whore" of this construction with an attempt to erase the sexual difference between the sisters. The agency of this erasure is a heroic rescue of one sister by the other. In both arts the subject of female rescue is resisted and contested. In painting, Cohen discusses evidence for the attempt at erasure of difference in pictures which make the sexually wayward woman and her respectable counterpart similar or identical in appearance. The important female rescue picture does not get painted but is only approached by painters at midcentury. Part of the evidence is the otherwise puzzling ubiquity of twinned women in Victorian painting. |
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... chapters are enough to do it at the same time as getting us well into the two main romances . The first chapter opens and closes with likeness : the sisters are alike in being the potential wives of which a single man in possession of a ...
... chapters are enough to do it at the same time as getting us well into the two main romances . The first chapter opens and closes with likeness : the sisters are alike in being the potential wives of which a single man in possession of a ...
Sivu 127
... Chapter Forty , the two women and their two mothers meet out on the Downs , and Hablôt Browne's illustration , A Chance Meeting , ren- ders the two younger women identical except for Edith's clothes and a neater coif , while Alice's ...
... Chapter Forty , the two women and their two mothers meet out on the Downs , and Hablôt Browne's illustration , A Chance Meeting , ren- ders the two younger women identical except for Edith's clothes and a neater coif , while Alice's ...
Sivu 171
... ( Chapter Eighty- One ) , and of Ladislaw ( Chapter Eighty - Three ) depict her first as an imposing or awe - inspiring figure : Lyd- gate thinks she has " a heart large enough for the Vir- gin Mary " ( 530 ) , Rosamond feels " something ...
... ( Chapter Eighty- One ) , and of Ladislaw ( Chapter Eighty - Three ) depict her first as an imposing or awe - inspiring figure : Lyd- gate thinks she has " a heart large enough for the Vir- gin Mary " ( 530 ) , Rosamond feels " something ...
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Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings Michael Cohen Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1995 |
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