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Author:

Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

Title:

Victorian art criticism and the woman writer / John Paul M. Kanwit.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Art criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women art critics--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) 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:

0814293190 (cd)
9780814293195 (cd)
0814212182 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212189 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816029614

LCCN:

2013002295

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)