The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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.…”
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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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