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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright Page 2 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 12 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "New School" of Protestant Art 30 2. "I Dedicate Myself. . . Unreservedly to Art": Augusta Jane Evans and Southern Art 76 3. Exorcising the Popular Woman Writer from "The Domain of Pure Literature" 116 4. Genius, Gender, and the Problem of Mentorship 150 5. The Civil War and the Making of the "America of Art" 189 Notes 236 Bibliography 284 Index 293 Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2005,ISBN:9780814272916,Related ISBN:9780814209837,Language:English,OCLC:899262105 By the end of the 19th century it had become possible for American women to identify themselves as serious Artists. This was a relatively new phenomenon, one that became possible only after American women writers had dismantled the conceptual frameworks that had authorized their artistic production since the early days of the Republic. Making the “America of Art” demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to mora

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Author

Naomi Z. Sofer

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814209837

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities