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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524680503321

Autore

Losano Antonia Jacqueline

Titolo

The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / Antonia Losano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008

©2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 300 p.) : : ill. ;

Disciplina

823.009/9287

Soggetti

Art in literature

Feminism in literature

Aesthetics in literature

Women artists in literature

Art and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontèˆ's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.