Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters

by Johnston,Judith

• ISBN13: 9781859283790
• ISBN10: 1859283799
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Acknowledgements	ix	(2)
Chronology	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
1 `A Silent Existence': Women and Biography	19	(31)
2 The Riddle of History: Unhistorical Women	50	(23)
3 Writing Romeo Out: Rereading Shakespeare's Women	73	(27)
4 `Only a Traveller's Tale': Gendered Discourse in Professional Travel-Writing	100	(24)
5 Metamorphosed and Translated: Interpreting the terra incognita	124	(30)
6 Invading the House of Titian: The Colonisation of Italian Art	154	(26)
7 Alien Aesthetics and the Representation of Women	180	(28)
8 `Throwing Down the Partition Walls': Feminist Dialectics and Professional Work for Women	208	(28)
Appendix Locations of the Major Manuscript Collections and Bibliography	236	(4)
Works Cited	240	(15)
Index	255