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Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism
- Title
- Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism / Elizabeth A. Fay.
- Author
- Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957-
- Publication
- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- 323 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
- Uniform Title
- Becoming modern.
- Subjects
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Portraits in literature
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- Self in literature
- Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Art and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-1436
- ISBN
- 9781584657781 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1584657782 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009026508
- OCLC
- YBP 2009026508
- Author
- Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957-
- Title
- Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism / Elizabeth A. Fay.
- Imprint
- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2010.
- Series
- Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studiesBecoming modern.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-1436