Imagining the gallery : the social body of British romanticism
"The Romantic period has long been associated with the sublime landscape. In Imagining the Gallery, we learn that it was also the age of the portrait. Rovee reads the rise of portraiture in the Romantic period as an index of a massive reimagining of the British social body. Cultural institutions such as art galleries, he argues, are bastions of conservatism as well as dynamic spaces for envisioning a new political order
Print Book, English, 2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804751247, 0804751242
62342730
The many bodies of Edmund Burke
Everybody's Shakespeare
Painting sorrow
Monsters, marbles, and miniatures
The look of a poet : Wordsworth
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-Princeton Univ.) under the title Imaging the gallery: aesthetic democracy in British romanticism, 2002