ISBN: 9780820438511

"Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt" uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze competing representations of female bourgeois protagonists in selec… Mehr…

"Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt" uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze competing representations of female bourgeois protagonists in selected novels and paintings of the second half of nineteenth-century France. Sharon P. Johnson argues that the works of Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt contribute to the redefinition of social and sexual norms, either by presenting oppositional values that shock the public or by presenting alternative values and roles for women. By manipulating the depiction of -feminine spaces, - painterly conventions, and traditional narrative form, these works challenge dominant society's commonplace norms of -proper- behaviors and social roles. Such challenges thus attack bourgeois society by problematizing its boundaries of acceptability, boundaries that serve to make definitions clear and to strengthen bourgeois ideology. This study provides a new framework for feminist studies by analyzing how artistic works that have no overt intention of furthering women's causes do so by using female subjects in controversial ways to attack bourgeois social structures. Dr. Johnson offers fresh interpretations of the works she studies by examining them within the framework of nineteenth-century codes and contemporary women studies' questions." Media > Book, [PU: P. Lang]<

ISBN: 9780820438511

"Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt" uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze competing representations of female bourgeois protagonists in selec… Mehr…

"Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt" uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze competing representations of female bourgeois protagonists in selected novels and paintings of the second half of nineteenth-century France. Sharon P. Johnson argues that the works of Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt contribute to the redefinition of social and sexual norms, either by presenting oppositional values that shock the public or by presenting alternative values and roles for women. By manipulating the depiction of -feminine spaces, - painterly conventions, and traditional narrative form, these works challenge dominant society's commonplace norms of -proper- behaviors and social roles. Such challenges thus attack bourgeois society by problematizing its boundaries of acceptability, boundaries that serve to make definitions clear and to strengthen bourgeois ideology. This study provides a new framework for feminist studies by analyzing how artistic works that have no overt intention of furthering women's causes do so by using female subjects in controversial ways to attack bourgeois social structures. Dr. Johnson offers fresh interpretations of the works she studies by examining them within the framework of nineteenth-century codes and contemporary women studies' questions." Media > Book, [PU: P. Lang]<

2000, ISBN: 9780820438511

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2000. 249 pp., Hardcover, minor library markings, else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually… Mehr…

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2000. 249 pp., Hardcover, minor library markings, else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country., Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2000, 0<

ISBN: 9780820438511

Hardcover book. 249 pages. Published by Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. Media > Book, [PU: P. Lang]