This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere. The wealth of material gathered here - from autobiographies, conduct manuals, diaries, periodical articles, prefaces and travelogues - traces the extensive debate on women's art, feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Combining for the first time nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts, performance and craftsmanship, the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics, the conflicting views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed vocations, trades and professions, and the complex relationship between paid labour and female fame and notoriety.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
ISBN-13
9783039111169
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115973982
Product Key Features
Book Title
What ISA Woman to Do?: a Reader on Women, Work and Art, C. 1830-1890
Author
Patricia Zakreski, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Art, Literature, Zoology, History, Art Theory
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
388 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
245mm
Item Width
165mm
Volume
13
Item Weight
600 g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts