Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900

by Alison Stone

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning the time from the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism. They are Anna Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Frances Power Cobbe, Emilia Dilke, and Vernon Lee. The central issue that concerned them was how art related to morality and religion. Baillie and Martineau treated art...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019891797X
• ISBN13: 9780198917977
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"