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Alison Stone, Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770–1900, Oxford University Press, 2024, 304pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198917977.
Reviewed by Renee M. Conroy, American Society for Aesthetics
Alison Stone’s Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770–1900 is an edifying reconsideration of seven female British writers who made significant contributions to public thinking about the fine arts in the long nineteenth century, that is, from the end of the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism. It is a careful analysis of selected works by Anna Barbauld (1743–1825), Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Harriet Martineau (1802–76), Anna Jameson (1794–1860), Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), Emilia Dilke (1840–1904), and Vernon Lee (1856–1935) that aims to bring the art-related ideas of these largely forgotten authors back into contemporary view (1–3). Stone aspires, thereby, to enrich current conversations in the philosophy of art on topics of enduring concern, including the relationship between artistic and moral value, the allure of tragedy,…
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