Title: Victorian art criticism and the woman writer /
Authors: Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-
Publisher: Ohio State University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Art criticism Great Britain History; Women art critics Great Britain History; English literature Women authors History and criticism; Englisch; Frauenliteratur; Kunstkritik.; Schriftstellerin.; Großbritannien
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.