"I am an artist, Sir. And a woman" : representations of the woman artist in modernist literature

The figure of the artist-hero has dominated literary narratives since the Romantic period. With the development of the first wave of feminism and the New Woman, the artist- heroine began to emerge in the literature of the twentieth century. This marks a shift from the traditional Bildungsroman narra...

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Main Author: Thornton, Elise
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.634141