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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations
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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