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‘I Will Tell Nothing that I Did Not See’ : British Women's Travel Writing, Art and the Science of Connoisseurship, 1776–1860
Verfasst von:
Palmer, Caroline
in:
Forum for modern language studies
Oxford:
2015
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248-268 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Palmer, Caroline |
| In: | Forum for modern language studies |
| Jahr: | 2015 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In private journals and published travel accounts, many British women writers described how their appreciation of art was refined through travel. If the Grand Tour of Continental Europe had been important for forming the taste of male aristocrats in the early 18th century, it became essential for middle-class women writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who used their first-hand experience of artworks to reinforce their authority as connoisseurs. This article argues that women exploited the acceptably feminine context of travel writing to establish their expertise and contribute to the evolving field of art criticism. From the ‘scientific descriptions’ of Anna Miller in the 1770s to the ‘unprejudiced inquiry’ of Mary Philadelphia Merrifield in the 1850s, women played an important role in demonstrating that aesthetic judgement was not simply a knack, dependent on noble birth, but an exact science based on the ‘slowly gathered accumulation of facts’. Assisted by their fluency in multiple foreign languages and engagement in European social networks, British women travellers were at the forefront of contemporary cultural debates on art, conveying to British audiences the most recent developments in Italian and German connoisseurship, as well as becoming significant authorities in their own right. | |
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