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Behind the Gilded Edge. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 80
The nineteenth century was a period in which women
found themselves oppressed and circumscribed like
never before. As the relationship between visual art
and literature has gathered increasing interest in
recent years, scholars of art have concentrated on
how visual productions served to further this by
creating a image of woman as either inherently
dangerous or passive. This study turns the focus
away from literal paintings and onto literary
representations of artwork, arguing that this
process allows women to be seen as not only painted,
but also framed. The way that this frame functions
is investigated through a combination of examination
of a range of nineteenth-century texts with the new
and burgeoning frame scholarship. Because of the
power held by the frame, attempts to escape its
reaches were almost always unsuccessful, and often
futile. Only by writing about the frame and
enclosing it within their own interpretive
surrounds could these women begin to leave its
gilded edges, and create positions for themselves
within society as a whole.
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