Elizabeth Robins Pennell : : Critical Essays / / Dave Buchanan, Kimberly Morse Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Buchanan, Dave,; Morse Jones, Kimberly,
• MitwirkendeR: Bachman-Sanders, Christine,; Brogan, Una,; Buchanan, Dave,; Clarke, Meaghan,; Diedrick, James,; Gabin, Jane S.,; Jones, Kimberly Morse,; Laird, Holly A.,; McLean, Alice L.,; Shishko, Bonnie,; Wong, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations

A rediscovery of the writings and life of Elizabeth Robins PennellTwelve essays covering the broad range of Pennell’s diverse writing career and interestsInterdisciplinary contributions, from critics in English literature, art history, food writing, and American studiesA transatlantic perspective on a transatlantic figure, featuring contributions from both North American and UK contributorsCritical discussion of several Pennell texts that have never been written about (outside of contemporary reviews), including her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Our Sentimental Journey, To Gipsyland, and The LoversAn edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930. Pennell was a pioneer in the emerging field of cycle-touring literature, an important voice in late Victorian art criticism, an authority on James McNeill Whistler, a highly original food writer, and an accomplished biographer. This collection of essays, the first of its kind on Pennell, feature contributions from critics of English literature, art history, food writing, and American Studies. The volume furthers the rediscovery of a forgotten but significant voice in late Victorian letters and makes possible a new wave of Pennell scholarship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Authority, Deflection and Role Play in Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Writing Life -- 2. Rough Crossings: The Transatlantic Fate of Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Life of Mary Wollstonecraft -- 3. ‘Sentiment Might Do for a Post-Chaise, but [It Is] Impossible on a Tricycle’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Dialogue with Sterne in Our Sentimental Journey -- 4. Over the Alps in a Bad Mood: Elizabeth Robins Pennell as Contrarian -- 5. The Modern Woman as a ‘Scholar-Gypsy’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s To Gipsyland -- 6. Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s To Gipsyland: Intimate Invasions and Nostalgic Longings -- 7. The Gourmand as Essayist: Irony and Style in the Culinary Essays of Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- 8. Culinary Ekphrasis: Writing Against Science in Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s The Delights of Delicate Eating -- 9. The Curious Appetite of Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- 10. Elizabeth Robins Pennell as an Early Champion of Popular Art -- 11. ‘At the Museum comme à l’ordinaire’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Exhibition Culture -- 12. Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Wartime Prose: Nights and The Lovers -- Afterword -- Index