Imagining the Gallery : The Social Body of British Romanticism / Christopher Rovee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rovee, Christopher, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 36 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Romantic period has long been associated with the sublime landscape. In Imagining the Gallery, we learn that it was also the age of the portrait. Rovee reads the rise of portraiture in the Romantic period as an index of a massive reimagining of the British social body. Cultural institutions such as art galleries, he argues, are bastions of conservatism as well as dynamic spaces for envisioning a new political order. From the family gallery at Pemberley in Austen's Pride and Prejudice to the printed portraits of working men and women that were published in books; from the eighty-plus paintings of the Poet Laureate William Wordsworth to the gigantic living portrait that is Victor Frankenstein's Monster, Imagining the Gallery reveals portraiture as an enormously influential cultural discourse that helped to remake the body politic in the image of the private individual.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE The Many Bodies of Edmund Burke

CHAPTER TWO Everybody's Shakespeare

CHAPTER THREE Painting Sorrow

CHAPTER FOUR Monsters, Marbles, and Miniatures

CHAPTER FIVE The Look of a Poet: Wordsworth

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2513-3

OCLC:

1294424132