Romanticism and the Museum

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-50095-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

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

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peacocke, E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.