Images of the Self as Female the Achievement of Women Artists in Re-Envisioning Feminine Identity

Essays include: "`Restored to Their Rightful Owners': Correcting Distortions in Women's Literary and Art History" by Lauren P. De La Vars; "`It Is the Very Air I Breathe': The Practice of Art in the Life of Clara Schumann" by Gordon J. De La Vars; "Woman as Poet in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh" by Linda M. Lewis; "A Whirlwind on the Hard Red Clay: The Black Woman Artist as Theologian" by Martha J. Reineke; "Willa Cather's Visions and Revisions of Female Lives" by Susan Rosowski; "The Eternal Eve and the Newly Born Woman: Marianne Moore's `Marriage'" by Bruce Henderson; "Sign and Self in Mary Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" by Rosemary Welsh; and "Alice Neel: The Cinderella of Spanish Harlem" by Marilynn Lincoln Board.