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Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century Looking Like a Woman [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Literary Criticism)
  • Author:  Fraser, Hilary
  • Author:  Fraser, Hilary
  • ISBN-10:  1107075750
  • ISBN-10:  1107075750
  • ISBN-13:  9781107075757
  • ISBN-13:  9781107075757
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  254
  • Pages:  254
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • SKU:  1107075750-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1107075750-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100942514
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This book examines women's art writing in the nineteenth century, challenging the idea of art history as a masculine intellectual field.This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of female art literature and professional networks in the nineteenth century explores work by a range of women writers from George Eliot to Vernon Lee, and repositions women as key agents in the emergence of art history as a separate intellectual field.This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of female art literature and professional networks in the nineteenth century explores work by a range of women writers from George Eliot to Vernon Lee, and repositions women as key agents in the emergence of art history as a separate intellectual field.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.Introduction; 1. The profession of art history; 2. The art of fiction; 3. Girl guides: travel, translation, ekphrasis; 4. Women's periods; 5. Feminine arts; Conclusion. & this eminently readable study of women writing in a diversity of genres during the nineteenth centulS%
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