{"product_id":"9781316054994","title":"Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman","description":"This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147118461168,"sku":"9781316054994","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316054994_p0.jpg?v=1763706164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316054994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}