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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
1. Profession of art history -- 2. Art of fiction -- 3. Girl guides: travel, translation, ekphrasis -- 4. Women's periods -- 5. Feminine arts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art -- Historiography -- History -- 19th century.
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Art -- Historiography. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Art criticism -- History -- 19th century.
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Art criticism. |
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Women art historians.
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Women art historians. |
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Women art critics.
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Women art critics. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fraser, Hilary, 1953- Women writing art history in the nineteenth century 9781107075757 (DLC) 2014012704 (OCoLC)876900870 |
| ISBN |
9781316073902 (electronic book) |
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1316073904 (electronic book) |
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9781107075757 |
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1107075750 |
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