عنوان

Romanticism and the museum /

(Number (ISBN

9781137471437 (hardcover)

(Number (ISBN

9781349500956

Erroneous ISBN

9781137471444 (eBook)

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b395420

Title Proper

Romanticism and the museum /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Emma Peacocke, Research Assistant, Carleton University, Canada.

Edition Statement

1st edition.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 195 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-180) and index.

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: -- List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Changing the Subject: Aesthetic Displacement, Museum Display, and the French Revolution in The Prelude2. Facing History: Galleries and Portraits in Waverley's Historiography3. Reframing the National Imagination in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington4. Carving Out the Public Sphere: Romantic Literary Periodicals and the Elgin MarblesEpilogueBibliographyIndex.

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"Romanticism and the Museum aims to establish the museum - like the ruin or Alpine landscape - as one of the most productive sites for Romantic authors' thinking. It argues that public museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation confronting the challenges of the French Revolution. This monograph makes four inter-related literary case studies to trace how Romantic-era authors mediated potentially controversial ideas through museum artefacts and settings; it highlights museum imagery in Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and in literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith. This timely study is at the confluence of several powerful currents in Romantic studies: Romantic institutions; the turn to the aesthetic and the visual; sociability; collections and collecting. Peacocke draws on diverse print sources, such as museum catalogues and guidebooks, artists' biographies, visual art, and depictions of the new exhibition spaces, to amplify her literary analysis of Romantic visions of reshaping the nation. "--

English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Museums-- Influence.

Romanticism-- England.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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Peacocke, Emma,1982-

Date of Transaction

20160927133955.0

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[Book]

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