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Cover -- Women On Philosophy Of Art: Britain 1770-1900 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- 1: Women And Philosophy Of Art In Nineteenth-century Britain -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Context Of Nineteenth-century Women's Writing On Art -- 1.3 The Character And Evolution Of Women's Thinking About Art -- 1.4 How This Book Relates To Existing Literature -- 1.5 Questions Of Method -- 1.6 Women's Intellectual Relations -- 1.7 Omissions -- 2: Anna Barbauld As A Philosopher Of Art -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Stages On Barbauld's Way -- 2.3 Barbauld's Paradox Of Fiction 2.4 Devotional Taste: Religious Aesthetics, Aesthetic Religion -- 2.5 Barbauld, The Novel, And The Canon -- 3: Joanna Baillie's Theory Of Tragedy -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Baillie Rises, Falls, And Rises Again -- 3.3 Plays On The Passions -- 3.4 Baillie On The Passions -- 3.5 Baillie, Barbauld, And Sympathetic Curiosity -- 3.6 Baillie's Voluntarism And Optimism -- 4: Harriet Martineau On Literature, Morality, And Realism -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 From Barbauld To Martineau's Illustrations -- 4.3 Martineau On Scott And The Moral Purpose Of Literature -- 4.4 Beyond Romance To Realism 4.5 Illustrations Of Political Economy -- 4.6 Martineau On Bad Art -- 5: Aesthetics And Ethics In Anna Jameson's Characteristics Of Women -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Characteristics Of Women: Moral Philosophy By Aesthetic Example -- 5.3 Jameson's Taxonomy Of Female Characters: Moral Psychology By Aesthetic Example -- 5.4 Jameson, Baillie, And Martineau On Virtue And The Emotions -- 5.5 The Aesthetics Of Characteristics: Aesthetic Wholes And Moral Examples -- 6: Anna Jameson And Sacred And Legendary Art -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Greek And Gothic Art -- 6.3 How Jameson Decodes Christian Art 6.4 Religion And Aesthetics In Sacred Art -- 6.5 Religious, Aesthetic, And Moral Value In Sacred Art -- 6.6 Jameson, Ruskin, And The Canon -- 7: Frances Power Cobbe, Female Genius, And The Hierarchy Of The Arts -- 7.1 Int