Psyche's daughter of today: Sara Jeannette Duncan and the new womanGadpaille, Michelle (Avtor) Canadian literatureCanadian fictionPsycheSara Jeannette DuncanNew WomanThe Canadian novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861-1922) constructed a New Woman heroine in the fin-de- siècle novel, A Daughter of Today (1894). Writtenin the popular mode of the transatlantic novel, the work engages in debate on the appropriate construction of femininity in art and public life. The heroine, Elfrida Bell, descends from artist, to muse, to model, to paintedimage-a descent framed by a rival male artist and a hostile London art scene. Represented as Psyche, the heroine undergoes a quest and failure similar to the mythical one. Adaptation of the Psyche myth clarifies the position of Duncan in the spectrum of gender ideologies of the fin-de-siècle.20072017-05-16 10:42:14Članek v reviji65706sl