Romanticism and the Museum

by E. Peacocke, Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349500956
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emma Rosalind Peacocke completed her doctorate at Carleton University. Her publications include articles in the European Romantic Review and Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext. She has held a Huntington Junior Fellowship, and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 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