Romanticism and the Museum [electronic resource] /
Peacocke, Emma.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Fiction.
British literature.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.