| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 95 |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 95
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| Contents |
1. The profession of art history -- 2. The art of fiction -- 3. Girl guides: travel, translation, ekphrasis -- 4. Women's periods -- 5. Feminine arts |
| Summary |
This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art -- Historiography -- History -- 19th century
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Art criticism -- History -- 19th century
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Women art historians.
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Women art critics.
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Art -- Historiography -- 19th century
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art historians.
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art critics.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Art criticism
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Art -- Historiography
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Women art critics
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Women art historians
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316073902 |
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1316073904 |
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