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Creative negativity : four Victorian exemplars of the female quest / Carol Hanbery MacKay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacKay, Carol Hanbery.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--History.
- Feminism.
- History.
- Women artists--Psychology.
- Women artists.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Women artists--Biography.
- Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
- Cameron, Julia Margaret.
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919.
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray.
- Besant, Annie, 1847-1933.
- Besant, Annie.
- Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952.
- Robins, Elizabeth.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- 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).
- Contents:
- 1. Creative Negativity and the Female Quest 1
- 2. The Singular Double Vision of Julia Margaret Cameron 17
- 3. Self-Erasure and Self-Creation in Anne Thackeray Ritchie 56
- 4. The Multiple Deconversions of Annie Wood Besant 96
- 5. Elizabeth Robins Outperforms the New Woman 135
- Epilogue: The Female Quest Reconsidered 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804738297
- OCLC:
- 46394034
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