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Author:

Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957-

Title:

Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism / Elizabeth A. Fay.

Publisher:

University of New Hampshire Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

323 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Contents:

Ch. 1. The portraitive mode. Wordsworth's self-portrait -- Taste, fashionable consumption, and congruence -- Heightened impressions : imagination, desire, and identity -- Ch. 2. Making faces. Legible bodies -- Seeing, consumption, and strategies of space -- Painted figures and Plutarch's heirs -- Reading reproduction -- Bodies in time -- Ch. 3. Consuming portraits. A new socius : Josiah Wedgwood and Rudolph Ackermann -- Miniatures : Richard Cosway and John Boydell -- Facing history -- Ch. 4. Practicing aesthetics. Aesthetics, taste, and the collection -- Collecting fetishes -- House museums -- Instituting the portrait -- Ch. 5. Living portraits. Reflexive staging, fashionability, and travel practice -- Mary Robinson, acting the self -- Byronic travel and the theater of the self -- Consumable subjects : Manfred, Sappho, and fame.

Series:

Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies

ISBN:

1584657782 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781584657781 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318876274

LCCN:

2009026508

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)