Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century - Looking Like a Woman

This book examines women's art writing in the nineteenth century, challenging the idea of art history as a masculine intellectual field.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The profession of art history; 2. The art of fiction; 3. Girl guides: travel, translation, ekphrasis; 4. Women's periods; 5. Feminine arts; Conclusion.

About the author

Hilary Fraser is Executive Dean of Arts and Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her publications include Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature (Cambridge, 1986), The Victorians and Renaissance Italy (1992), Gender and the Victorian Periodical (with Judith Johnston and Stephanie Green, Cambridge, 2003) and Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930 (co-edited with Deirdre Coleman, 2011).

Summary

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of female art literature and professional networks in the nineteenth century explores work by a range of women writers from George Eliot to Vernon Lee, and repositions women as key agents in the emergence of art history as a separate intellectual field.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Fraser
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107075757
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07575-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies