Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index.
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "New School" of Protestant art -- "I dedicate myself...unreservedly to art": Augusta Jane Evans and Southern art -- Exorcising the popular woman writer from "The Domain of Pure Literature" -- Genius, gender, and the problem of mentorship -- The Civil War and the making of the "America of Art."
