E. Peacocke

Romanticism and the Museum

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-50095-6
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 196mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781349500956
• ISBN-10: 134950095X
• Artikelnr.: 45080575

Autorenporträt

Emma Rosalind Peacocke completed her doctorate at Carleton University. Her publications include articles in the European Romantic Review and Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext. She has held a Huntington Junior Fellowship, and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Changing the Subject: Aesthetic Displacement, Museum Display, and the French Revolution in The Prelude 2. Facing History: Galleries and Portraits in Waverley's Historiography 3. Reframing the National Imagination in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington 4. Carving Out the Public Sphere: Romantic Literary Periodicals and the Elgin Marbles Epilogue Bibliography Index