Abstract
This article aims to examines the ways in which nineteenth-century British, Irish and American women writers appropriated and employed classical statuary, and particularly the Pygmalion myth, as a liberatory strategy that allowed them to sculpt their own identities and participate in debates that were both personal and political.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 0 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-29 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Volume | 2016 |
Issue number | 22 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 23 Jun 2016 |
Keywords
- American literature
- women's poetry
- Victorian
- Galatea
- Pygmalion