Women on Philosophy of Art - Britain 1770-1900

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning the time from the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Timeline


• 1: Women and Philosophy of Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain


• 2: Anna Barbauld as a Philosopher of Art


• 3: Joanna Baillie's Theory of Tragedy


• 4: Harriet Martineau on Literature, Morality, and Realism


• 5: Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson's Characteristics of Women


• 6: Anna Jameson and Sacred and Legendary Art


• 7: Frances Power Cobbe, Female Genius, and the Hierarchy of the Arts


• 8: Emilia Dilke's Journey from Art Philosophy to Art History


• 9: Vernon Lee, Art-Philosophy, and True Aestheticism


• 10: The Fate of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers of Art


• 11: Additional Women Philosophers of Art: Beyond the Frame

About the author

Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Her interests span the history of philosophy, post-Kantian European philosophy, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Her most recent books are Being Born (OUP 2019), Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (OUP, 2022), and Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (OUP, 2023). With Lydia Moland, she has co-edited the Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century.

Summary

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning the time from the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Stone, Alison (Professor of Philosophy Stone, Stone Alison
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198917977
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891797-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / European, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Popular philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought