The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature /

"The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian women wri...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Losano, Antonia Jacqueline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Full text available:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters
  • Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre
  • Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant
  • The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman
  • Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge
  • Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.