Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum - Rilegato

Gidal, Eric

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ISBN 10: 161148149X ISBN 13: 9781611481495

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum offers an extensive interdisciplinary study of the relationship between British Romantic poetry and the rise of national museum culture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In a simultaneously theoretical and historical analysis, it studies a range of poetry and aesthetic philosophy in relation to the first hundred years of the British Museum, from its establishment in the 1750's to the completion of its current edifice in the 1850's. It thereby provides a sequence of aesthetic reflections on the various social, cultural, and imaginative challenges posed by this novel institution. In the process of tracing poetic and critical responses to the museum and its collections, Poetic Exhibitions simultaneously demonstrates the impact of nationalist ideologies and scientific discourse on formal and thematic developments in Romantic poetry and aesthetics.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Eric Gidal is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 161148149X
• ISBN 13: 9781611481495
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 284