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Psychosocial spaces : verbal and visual readings of British culture, 1750-1820
- Title
- Psychosocial spaces : verbal and visual readings of British culture, 1750-1820 / Steven J. Gores.
- Author
- Gores, Steven J.
- Publication
- Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Description
- 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Gores first analyzes Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker and Jane Austen's Persuasion in conjunction with visual evidence of social settings they contain, such as the London pleasure gardens of Ranelagh and Vauxhall. Through this analysis, he describes how assertions of identity and rank were becoming more complicated as social space was shaped by the architectural articulation of space and the codification of etiquette."
- "He next examines Sophia Lee's novel The Recess, along with prints and sketches of ruins, to place the monastic ruin at the focus of desire to repress discontinuity in the past, which in turn permitted individuals to conceive of constructing identity based on genealogy. Then, through a study of Henry Fielding's Amelia, he discusses portrait miniatures and silhouettes as fetishized symbols of erotic ties, showing how images of a beloved, with their promises for the future, were used as a basis for constructing individual identity."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Social psychology and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Social psychology and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Subjectivity in literature
- Social psychology in art
- Self in literature
- Art, British
- English fiction
- Manners and customs
- Social psychology and literature
- Englisch
- Kultur
- Roman
- Soziale Identität
- Fictie
- Engels
- Sociale psychologie
- Sociale identiteit
- Subjectiviteit
- Zelf
- Kunst
- Geschichte 1750-1820
- Roman
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Historical Context: Subjectivity and Circulation in Eighteenth-Century England -- 2. Circulation and Specularity in Social Space -- 3. The Ruin as Object of Desire: The Recess, Visual Art, and Historical Space -- 4. Erotic Space: Amelia and the Miniature.
- ISBN
- 0814326633
- 9780814326633
- LCCN
- 99041382
- OCLC
- ocm41977330
- 41977330
- SCSB-1128716
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library