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Victorian art criticism and the woman writer

Title
Victorian art criticism and the woman writer / John Paul M. Kanwit.
Author
Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Description
xii, 180 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Art criticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Women art critics > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • English literature > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780814212189 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814212182 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814293195 (cd)
  • 0814293190 (cd)
LCCN
  • 2013002295
  • 40022622770
OCLC
  • 816029614
  • ocn816029614
  • SCSB-5701690
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries