Marmoreal sisterhoods: classical statuary in nineteenth-century women’s writing

Patricia Elizabeth Pulham

doi:10.16995/ntn.763

Marmoreal sisterhoods: classical statuary in nineteenth-century women’s writing

Patricia Elizabeth Pulham

Centre for Studies in Literature

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.763
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2016

Keywords

American literature
women's poetry
Victorian
Galatea
Pygmalion

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