Beauty’s Price: Femininity as an Aesthetic Commodity in Elizabeth’s von Arnim’s Novels

Beauty’s Price: Femininity as an Aesthetic Commodity in Elizabeth’s von Arnim’s Novels

Was Elizabeth von Arnim an aesthetic writer? Scholars and critics have claimed her as an Edwardian, a middlebrow author, a popular bestselling writer and a satirist of acerbic wit. By including her in her seminal work The Female Forgotten Aesthetes (2000) Talia Schaffer has encouraged readers to loo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens 2011-10 (74 Automne), p.123-140
1. Verfasser: Roemhild, Juliane
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
aestheticism
Aesthetics
Corelli (Marie)
Cross (Victoria)
Decadence
Femininity
Feminism
Jopling (Louise)
Literary criticism
Literature
Meynell (Alice)
Novels
Social classes
von Arnim, Elizabeth
Writers
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Zusammenfassung:Was Elizabeth von Arnim an aesthetic writer? Scholars and critics have claimed her as an Edwardian, a middlebrow author, a popular bestselling writer and a satirist of acerbic wit. By including her in her seminal work The Female Forgotten Aesthetes (2000) Talia Schaffer has encouraged readers to look at von Arnim’s early works from yet another and, as it turns out, very fruitful perspective. Schaffer suggests that Elizabeth, the diarist of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), who was von A...
ISSN:0220-5610
2271-6149
DOI:10.4000/cve.1362