Date of Graduation
2003
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MA
Committee Chair
Marilyn Francus
Abstract
Working under the general category “picturesque aesthetics,” my thesis examines the connections between colonial and patriarchal control in late eighteenth-century aesthetic discourses. I place the longstanding and tradition conflation of Woman/Nature-landscape in dialog with picturesque aesthetics’ gendered rhetoric and explicit concerns with nationalism, tourism, and history. When placed in the context of then contemporary gender stereotypes and eighteenth-century imperial efforts, picturesque aesthetics employ a colonial methodology for controlling and appropriating a femininity embodied in the national landscape.
Recommended Citation
Lake, Crystal B., ""Some peculiar construction of the object": The colonization of femininity in picturesque aesthetics." (2003). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD). 10744.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10744