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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Named Person: | Julia Margaret Cameron; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Annie Besant; Elizabeth Robins; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Annie Wood Besant; Annie Besant; Julia Margaret Cameron; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Elizabeth Robins; Annie Besant; Julia Margaret Cameron; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Elizabeth Robins; Julia Margaret Cameron; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Annie Besant; Elizabeth Robins |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol Hanbery MacKay |
ISBN: | 0804738297 9780804738293 |
OCLC Number: | 46394034 |
Description: | xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Creative Negativity and the Female Quest -- The Singular Double Vision of Julia Margaret Cameron -- Self-Erasure and Self-Creation in Anne Thackeray Ritchie -- The Multiple Deconversions of Annie Wood Besant -- Elizabeth Robins Outperforms the New Woman -- Epilogue: The Female Quest Reconsidered. |
Responsibility: | Carol Hanbery MacKay. |
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Abstract:
Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952).
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"Fresh and compelling, this book develops a thesis about female 'creative negativity' that will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of Victorian literary culture and women's studies, performance and drama, and women's history generally. No other work brings comparable materials together into such a new but entirely natural whole; no one has previously attempted to provide a single workable template for Victorian femal creative activity." - Joss Marsh, Indiana University Read more...
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- Cameron, Julia Margaret, -- 1815-1879.
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, -- 1837-1919.
- Besant, Annie, -- 1847-1933.
- Robins, Elizabeth, -- 1862-1952.
- Feminism -- History.
- Women artists -- Psychology.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Women artists -- Biography.
- Besant, Annie Wood, -- 1847-1933.
- Féminisme -- Histoire.
- Femmes artistes -- Psychologie.
- Femmes artistes -- Biographies.
- Besant, Annie, -- 1847-1933
- Cameron, Julia Margaret, -- 1815-1879
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, -- 1837-1919
- Robins, Elizabeth, -- 1862-1952
- Feminism.
- Women artists.
- Besant, Annie -- 1847-1933
- Cameron, Julia Margaret -- 1815-1879
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray -- 1837-1919
- Robins, Elizabeth -- 1862-1952
- Literatur
- Schriftstellerin
- Kreativität
- Englisch.