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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.
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- ISBN 9781107428744
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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.
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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.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Hilary Fraser
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Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107075757) and paperback(ISBN 9781107428744)