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• catalog abstract "Author Michael Cohen has found in nineteenth-century British paintings and novels depicting sisters a persistent attempt to subvert a stereotypical construction of women - that which neatly divides all women into either whores or "respectable" women. In many paintings and novels, a female transformation of heroic myth opposes the "necessary whore" of this construction with an attempt to erase the sexual difference between the sisters. The agency of this erasure is a heroic rescue of one sister by the other. In both arts the subject of female rescue is resisted and contested. In painting, Cohen discusses evidence for the attempt at erasure of difference in pictures which make the sexually wayward woman and her respectable counterpart similar or identical in appearance. The important female rescue picture does not get painted but is only approached by painters at midcentury. Part of the evidence is the otherwise puzzling ubiquity of twinned women in Victorian painting. In novels, the struggle to erase the difference between women whose sexual experience differs started early. Cohen demonstrates that difference and likeness among sisters was first fully exploited by Austen and Ferrier. In Dickens and Collins, the author has found a retrograde movement in the trend toward erasure of women's sexual difference elsewhere apparent. Dickens magnifies sexual difference between women in his families. Collins makes use of sensational displacements of the respectable woman by a counterpart who is stained in some way - if not by prostitution then by the taint of illegitimacy. In both writers, sexual difference between pairs of women is highlighted rather than effaced. Finally, in the sisters novels of Meredith, Gaskell, and Eliot, this study shows that there are rescues performed by sisters and the transformation of male characters into figurative sisters of the protagonists.".
• catalog contributor b7962282.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "1. Defining Sisters: Augustus Egg's The Travelling Companions and the Grammar of Sisterhood -- 2. Demythologizing Reynolds: Painting Modern-Life Sisters -- 3. Painted Women and Unpainted Pictures: Secularizing the Imagery of Sisterhood -- 4. Looking-Glass Arts: Connecting Paintings and Novels -- 5. First Sisters in Ferrier, Austen, and Scott -- 6. Sisters in the Perturbed Families of Dickens -- 7. Looking-Glass Women: Rescue and Displacement in Collins -- 8. Sisters, Sexual Difference, and the Underclass in Meredith's Rhoda Fleming (1865) -- 9. Healthy Relations: Nursing Sisters in Gaskell's "Every-Day" Stories -- 10. Reform and Rescue in Middlemarch (1872).".
• catalog description "Author Michael Cohen has found in nineteenth-century British paintings and novels depicting sisters a persistent attempt to subvert a stereotypical construction of women - that which neatly divides all women into either whores or "respectable" women. In many paintings and novels, a female transformation of heroic myth opposes the "necessary whore" of this construction with an attempt to erase the sexual difference between the sisters. The agency of this erasure is a heroic rescue of one sister by the other. In both arts the subject of female rescue is resisted and contested. In painting, Cohen discusses evidence for the attempt at erasure of difference in pictures which make the sexually wayward woman and her respectable counterpart similar or identical in appearance. The important female rescue picture does not get painted but is only approached by painters at midcentury. Part of the evidence is the otherwise puzzling ubiquity of twinned women in Victorian painting.".
• catalog description "In novels, the struggle to erase the difference between women whose sexual experience differs started early. Cohen demonstrates that difference and likeness among sisters was first fully exploited by Austen and Ferrier. In Dickens and Collins, the author has found a retrograde movement in the trend toward erasure of women's sexual difference elsewhere apparent. Dickens magnifies sexual difference between women in his families. Collins makes use of sensational displacements of the respectable woman by a counterpart who is stained in some way - if not by prostitution then by the taint of illegitimacy. In both writers, sexual difference between pairs of women is highlighted rather than effaced. Finally, in the sisters novels of Meredith, Gaskell, and Eliot, this study shows that there are rescues performed by sisters and the transformation of male characters into figurative sisters of the protagonists.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-184) and index.".
• catalog extent "187 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Sisters.".
• catalog identifier "0838635555 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Sisters.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Sisters.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "823/.809352042 20".
• catalog subject "Art and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PR868.S52 C64 1995".
• catalog subject "Painting, British.".
• catalog subject "Painting, Modern 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Rescues in art.".
• catalog subject "Rescues in literature.".
• catalog subject "Sisters Great Britain History 19th century Historiography.".
• catalog subject "Sisters in art.".
• catalog subject "Sisters in literature.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Defining Sisters: Augustus Egg's The Travelling Companions and the Grammar of Sisterhood -- 2. Demythologizing Reynolds: Painting Modern-Life Sisters -- 3. Painted Women and Unpainted Pictures: Secularizing the Imagery of Sisterhood -- 4. Looking-Glass Arts: Connecting Paintings and Novels -- 5. First Sisters in Ferrier, Austen, and Scott -- 6. Sisters in the Perturbed Families of Dickens -- 7. Looking-Glass Women: Rescue and Displacement in Collins -- 8. Sisters, Sexual Difference, and the Underclass in Meredith's Rhoda Fleming (1865) -- 9. Healthy Relations: Nursing Sisters in Gaskell's "Every-Day" Stories -- 10. Reform and Rescue in Middlemarch (1872).".
• catalog title "Sisters : relation and rescue in nineteenth-century British novels and paintings / Michael Cohen.".
• catalog type "text".