Fashioning faces
Subtitle: the portraitive mode in British romanticism
By: Elizabeth A. Fay.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.H; Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584657781
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Portraits in literature; Self in literature; Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The portraitive mode. Wordsworth's self-portrait; title: Taste, fashionable consumption, and congruence; title: Heightened impressions : imagination, desire, and identity; title: Ch. 2. Making faces. Legible bodies; title: Seeing, consumption, and strategies of space; title: Painted figures and Plutarch's heirs; title: Reading reproduction; title: Bodies in time; title: Ch. 3. Consuming portraits. A new socius : Josiah Wedgwood and Rudolph Ackermann; title: Miniatures : Richard Cosway and John Boydell; title: Facing history; title: Ch. 4. Practicing aesthetics. Aesthetics, taste, and the collection; title: Collecting fetishes; title: House museums; title: Instituting the portrait; title: Ch. 5. Living portraits. Reflexive staging, fashionability, and travel practice; title: Mary Robinson, acting the self; title: Byronic travel and the theater of the self; title: Consumable subjects : Manfred, Sappho, and fame.