Strategies for Showing Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800

Name: Strategies for Showing Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800
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ISBN: 9780198174110

ISBN-10: 019817411X

ISBN-13: 9780198174110

Edition: 1997

Authors: Marcia Pointon

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In this unusual and original study, Marcia Pointon examines the cultural effects and consequences of the participation by women in acts of representation in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She explores their lives and work, and a cultural environment in which images of female saints and goddesses established indices of femininity in the homes of wealthy men. Did the women portrayed also possess artifacts, and did they use the power of gifts and bequests to determine social relations? Did they themselves participate in the processes of creating images of the seen world? Pointon sets out to answer some of these questions through a series of novel and vividly recounted case…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/6/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.44" long x 1.52" tall
Weight: 2.926
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Notes


Purchasing and Consuming Elizabeth Harley. . . and Others


Notes


Marriage and Its Boundaries The Montgomery Sisters Adorning A Term of Hymen


Notes


Abundant Leisure And Extensive Knowledge Dorothy Richardson Delineates


Notes


Working, Earning, Bequeathing Mary Grace and Mary Moser -- 'Paintresses'


Notes


Portraiture, Excess, and Mythology Mary Hale, Emma Hamilton, And Others . . . 'In Bacchante'


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Protestants and 'Fair Penitents' With Special Reference to St Cecilia


Notes


Appendix: An Anthology of Wills Relating to Women's Property 1739-1760


Bibliography


Index