Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / John Paul M. Kanwit.

Author/creator Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-
Other author Project Muse.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (216 pages)
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Subjects
English literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women art critics--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Art criticism--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.

SeriesBook collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013002295
ISBN9780814270226
ISBN0814270220

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