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Poetic Exhibitions
Eric Gidal
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Description for Poetic Exhibitions
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481495
SKU
V9781611481495
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About Eric Gidal
Eric Gidal is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.
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