Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
Contents
Cultural reproduction and the female copyist -- Domesticating the sublime: Fanny Fern and E.D.E.N. Southworth -- The riddle of the sphinx: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis -- Louis May Alcott's women artists: "Proving Avis in the wrong" -- Kate Chopin's awakening of female artistry -- Edith Wharton's portrait of a lady in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Authenticating the African-American female artist: Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun.
