Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer

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Main Author: Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Encouraging visual literacy : early-Victorian state sponsorship of the arts and the growing need for expert art commentary
  • "Mere outward appearances"? Teaching household taste and social perception in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and south and contemporary art commentary
  • "My name is the right one" : Lady Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake and the story of professional art criticism
  • "I have often wished in vain for another's judgment" : modeling ideal aesthetic commentary in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • A new kind of elitism? Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions
  • Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch
  • Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism
  • Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? Artistic value after September 11.