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American artists in nineteenth-century Rome
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 x 24 cm.
Explores mid-nineteenth-century American women sculptors who developed successful professional careers in Rome. Draws from feminist theory, cultural geography and expatriate and postcolonial studies to investigate the gendered nature of creativity and expatriation.
The Boston-Rome nexus -- Neoclassicism in cosmopolitan Rome -- "A woman artist is an object of peculiar odium" -- Rome in the colonial imagination -- Reimagining Italy -- Antislavery sermons in stone -- Women sculptors, suffrage, and the public stage.
Includes bibliographical references and index.