Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, has published an article in Source: Notes on the History of Art. “A Flaxman Mystery Solved: Lalande, Flaxman’s Venice Visit, and the Attribution of British Library Add. MS 39890” grows out of McAllister’s work on the 18th-century travel writer Ann Flaxman, wife of the famous British sculptor John Flaxman (1755-1826). A series of fortuitous discoveries in library archives enabled McAllister to demonstrate that a manuscript long taken as a significant source on John Flaxman’s travels and education was in fact a translation from a French travel book, not an actual travel journal. UMW colleague Marjorie Och helped suggest an ideal publication venue for this discovery, which will be of interest to historians of Neoclassical art as well as scholars working on travel literature.
McAllister Presents at Conference
Marie E. McAllister, professor of English, gave a paper entitled “Addicted to Fame: Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda” at the biennial conference of the Aphra Behn Society, an organization for the study of women and gender in the arts from 1660-1830. McAllister also recently attended the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Philadelphia.
Marie McAllister Authors Article
Marie E. McAllister, professor of English, authored the lead article in volume nine of Eighteenth-Century Novel, “Pox Imagery in Clarissa.“
Marie McAllister Publishes Article
Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, authored the lead article in volume 9 of Eighteenth-Century Novel, “Pox Imagery in Clarissa.“