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 lo...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2015
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| Summary: | 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... |
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