Anna Jameson : Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Johnston, Judith

Routledge（2016/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138279209
• DDC分類 808.80092

Full 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.

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.