Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales

In her feminization of Hawthorne’s famous Italian tales, Alcott made of her talented heroines not only objects but subjects of their art. The excellent training of many of her aspiring women sculptors follows the Oedipal patterns which oppressively dominate Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own Roman artworld....

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Main Author: Daniela Daniele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2022-10-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/18932
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