Anna Jameson : Victorian, feminist, woman of letters
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Anna Jameson : Victorian, feminist, woman of letters
(Nineteenth century series)
Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub. Co., c1997
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-254) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- 'A silent existence': women and biography
- The riddle of history: unhistorical women
- Writing Romeo out: rereading Shakespeare's women
- 'Only a traveller's tale': gendered discourse in professional travel writing
- Metamorphosed and translated: interpreting the terra incognita
- Invading the house of Titian: the colonisation of Italian art
- Alien aesthetics and the representation of women
- 'Throwing down the partition walls': feminist dialectics and professional work for women
- Locations of the major manuscript collections
- Bibliography
- Works cited.
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