Anna Jameson : Victorian, feminist, woman of letters / / Judith Johnston

• Autore: Johnston Judith <1947-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Disciplina: 808.80092
• Soggetto topico: Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century; Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901
• Note generali: First published 1997 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. 'A silent existence' : women and biography -- 2. The riddle of history : unhistorical women -- 3. Writing Romeo out : rereading Shakespeare's women -- 4. 'Only a traveller's tale' : gendered discourse in professional travel-writing -- 5. Metamorphosed and translated : interpreting the terra incognita -- 6. Invading the house of Titian : the colonisation of Italian art -- 7. Alien aesthetics and the representation of women -- 8. 'Throwing down the partition walls' : feminist dialectics and professional work for women.
• Sommario/riassunto: Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This study considers her life and works, using a different Jameson work as the central focus of each chapter. The author considers the particular non-fiction discourse in which the work is written, as well as such issues as gender and colonialism. Arranged chronologically, the book also charts the growth and development of a determined feminism in the vital years of the early Victorian period, and compares Jameson to her contemporaries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anna Jameson
• ISBN: 1-138-27920-X; 1-315-26250-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154984603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)