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Author:

Rovee, Christopher Kent, 1969-

Title:

Imagining the gallery : the social body of British romanticism / Christopher Rovee.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Art and literature--England--History--19th century.
Portrait painting, English.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Portraits in literature.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-Princeton Univ.) under the title Imaging the gallery: aesthetic democracy in British romanticism, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-235) and index.

Contents:

The many bodies of Edmund Burke -- Everybody's Shakespeare -- Painting sorrow -- Monsters, marbles, and miniatures -- The look of a poet : Wordsworth.

ISBN:

9780804751247
9780804751247 (alk. paper)
0804751242 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62342730

LCCN:

2005032998

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)