Women writing art history in the nineteenth century : looking like a woman /

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Author / Creator:	Fraser, Hilary, 1953-
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 95 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 95.
Subject:	Art -- Historiography -- History -- 19th century. Art criticism -- History -- 19th century. Women art historians. Women art critics. Art criticism. Art -- Historiography. Women art critics. Women art historians. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015630

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ISBN:	9781316073902 1316073904 9781107075757 1107075750
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.
Other form:	Print version: Fraser, Hilary, 1953- Women writing art history in the nineteenth century 9781107075757

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