The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

by Richard C. Sha
The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

by Richard C. Sha

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Overview

With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of the age by persuading audiences that less is more.

The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism investigates the varied implications of sketching in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century culture. Calling on a wide range of literary and visual genres, Richard C. Sha examines the shifting economic and aesthetic value of the sketch in sources ranging from auction catalogs and sketching manuals to novels that employed scenes of sketching and courtship. He especially shows how sketching became a double-edged accomplishment for women when used to define "proper" femininity.

Sha's work offers fresh readings of Austen, Gilpin, Wordsworth, and Byron, as well as less familiar writers, and provides sophisticated interpretations of visual sketches. As the first full-length work about sketching during the Romantic era, this volume is a rich interdisciplinary study of both representation and gender.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812234206
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 08/29/1997
Series: Anniversary Collection
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Richard C. Sha is Professor of Literature and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He is author of Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750 1832 and editor of Historicizing Romantic Sexuality.
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