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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The Many Lives of May Alcott Nieriker -- A Polymath Renaissance Women: Moving Beyond the Myth of "Amy March -- The Forgotten Alcott: Reclaiming Nieriker's Artistic Legacy and Literary Life -- May Alcott Nieriker: Transdisciplinary Subject -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: The Forgotten Alcott -- 1. "Concordia's Queen": May Alcott and the Town of Concord -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. "Successive Chapters in a Romance": May Alcott Nieriker's Influence on the Development of the Woman Artist in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction -- The Artist and the Woman: The Dichotomy of the Double-Vocation -- Talent Isn't Genius": Louisa's Response to May's Pursuit of the Divine Fire -- I Slept, and Dreamed That Life Was Beauty -- I Woke and Found That Life Was Duty": The Fate of the Individualistic Female Artist -- All Her Young Cherished Dreams Were Becoming Beautiful Realities": May's Intervention in Louisa's Portrayal of the Married Female Artist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. "Little Rafael"-May Alcott Nieriker's Beginnings-a Biographical Sketch -- What Do the Sources Reveal? -- Beginnings: 1840 -- Hillside: 1845-8 -- Boston: 1848-55 -- Lynn: 1854 -- The "Hard & -- Trying Years": 1855 to 1858 -- Growing Up: 1859-68 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: The Ex-Patriot -- 4. Armed with a Brush: May Alcott Nieriker as a Representative Woman Artist in Paris -- Why Europe? -- Early Art Education -- Women Confront the System -- Freedom -- American Pride and the Ex-Pat -- Professionalism Versus the Dilettante -- Postlude -- Works Cited -- 5. Alone Together in Paris: May Alcott Nieriker and Rosa Peckham Danielson -- May Alcott Nieriker -- Rosa Peckham Danielson -- Career Ambitions -- Art Study in Paris. |
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May et Rosa en Paris -- Art and Matrimony -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. Republics Abroad: The Art and Politics of Margaret Fuller and May Alcott Nieriker in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Transatlantic Transcendental Thought -- Before the Civil War: Fuller in Italy at the Outset of the Roman Republic -- After the Civil War: Alcott in France at the Establishment of the Third Republic -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part III: The Writer -- 7. Disciplinary Conversations: May Alcott Nieriker's "An Artist's Holiday -- Copying and Conversation, the Work of Authors and Artists -- Art in Literature -- Literature in Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. An Ideal Life: May Alcott Nieriker, Tourism, and Life Abroad -- An Artist's Eye for Tourism -- First Taste": May Alcott as Tourist -- A Heroine in a Romantic Adventure -- An Artists [sic] Holiday": May Alcott in Europe, 1873-9 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part IV: The Artist -- 9. "Let the World Know You Are Alive": May Alcott Nieriker and Louisa May Alcott Confront Nineteenth-Century Ideas About Women's Genius -- Defining Genius in a Historical Context -- Genius and the Transcendentalists -- Nineteenth-Century Women's Views on Genius -- Genius and Little Women -- Genius and Madness -- May Alcott's View of Genius -- Becoming a True Artist -- Encountering the Sublime -- Marriage, Art, or Both? -- Négresse-May's Masterwork -- Note -- Works Cited -- 10. Black Subjectivity in the Life and Art of May Alcott Nieriker -- Beginnings: Abby May's Youthful Desire to Help African Americans -- Revisiting the Civil War in Paris: May and the "Prince of Timbuctoo -- Looking into, and Beyond, the Model: May and Négresse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11. "The Pure Hope of Giving ... Pleasure": May Alcott, John Ruskin, and the Moral Aesthetic -- Kindred Spirits. |
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Regulus and Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus: Worship and Defiance -- Copying the Master: May Alcott's Lake Avernus -- Sublime Sorrow and Personal Pity: The Slave Ship and Négresse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part V: Legacies -- 12. The "Precious Legacy" of May Alcott Nieriker: Her Paintings and Her Child -- Note -- Works Cited -- Conclusion: No Longer Forgotten -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
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Hehmeyer, Lauren.
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9781000516425 (electronic bk.) |
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