Boundaries of Acceptability

Flaubert, Maupassant, Cezanne, and Cassatt

Sharon P. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

249 Seiten

2000
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3851-1 (ISBN)

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Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cézanne, 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, Cézanne, 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.

The Author: Sharon P. Johnson is Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is interested in nineteenth-century French literature and art, gender studies, feminist critical theory, and representations of women.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.8.2000
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 63
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 63
Zusatzinfo	11 fig.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-3851-0 / 0820438510
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3851-1 / 9780820438511
Zustand	Neuware